Monday, December 28, 2015

The wildest weather of the year... who got the worst flooding?

So, this year has been uneventful, for much of the time. Over the past few months, there's been a little bit of anomalous weather, here and there, not much however. Yet, still, there is one unanswered question on my mind: who got to experience the worst flooding? After all, if there's anything major that has happened in terms of weather this month, it has been the flooding. And although these floods were usually just over a short period of time... they were still considered as multiple major flooding events. And I did not even mention the  floods that happened earlier in November, although I will include these also. The regions of the world in which they took occurred ranges all of the way from United States, to all of the islands near or around the Scottish islands. Floods have also occurred from the southern coast of the Arabian peninsula, to India. From Singapore, to South America, astoundingly, these were all considered historic. The region near Singapore has received a measurable rainfall amount of two feet! The rainfall totals were not much different from all of the other areas, although it is likely that these totals probably have to due with the height of water in low lying areas. Particularly those where the rivers have overflown. And still, this can be considered major nonetheless. This has been much the case in England, Wales, and all of the nearby islands around the Scottish coast. Now, when it comes to Yemen, it was also about the lakes; not they flooded homes; that they were completely empty the day before the flooding! This can even be noticed on satellite images taken before and after the landfall of Hurricane Chapala. Just about the entire coast became green. So much so, in fact, that there was a relatively immense amount of foliage visible on the image that was taken after the hurricane. Now, although this was an immense amount of precipitation, there would soon be another flood; this time it would occur roughly 120 miles to the Northeast. And there would be TWICE that amount of rain. That's right- a week or to after Chapala came through Yemen, Qatar received two years worth of rain- in a matter of less than half a day, or seven hours, more or less.                         

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