Weather tracker: Flash floods and landslides wreak havoc in California | Flooding
Flash floods and landslides led to the death of a two -year -old child in the United States last week, after following the heels of the tropical storm in the south. Last week, the Storm swept the Pacific Coast with a minimum deterioration, and eventually dispersed to the west of Baja California on Tuesday, but the ruins continued to destruction on Thursday. The humid air from the tropical storm was pulled to California in the northeast and brought heavy torrential and thunder to the middle and southern districts.
The heaviest rainfall was in the mountains of Riverside and San Bernardino districts, where up to 68 mm (2.67) fell within just a few hours. Further north, Death Valley – one of the most dry places in the famous world – took 15 mm rain, the average rainfall and the annual average for September.
This led to flash flood and mud shifts, which were strong enough to carry some trees and rocks. He buried the wreckage houses and closed roads, caught a few drivers, and killed a two -year -old child traveling in a swept with flood juice.
In New Zealand, a very active air façade slowly moved to the northeast in South Island in South Island, and officials asked them to publish wind and rain warnings in most of the island, including a rare red wind warning for the entire Canterbury region. The large areas of the island, heavy torrential rainfall continued to rain more than 50 mm rain, Aoraki Mount Cook just 83 mm in only six hours. Rüzgar Gusts reached 50-60Mph at much higher speeds on the mountains and is on top of Hutt Mount 139mph.
While moving towards the Northern Island on Sunday, the front was a little weakened, but the lower parts of the island were beaten with wind and rain. Hundreds of houses lost power on both islands, trains were canceled and large roads were flooded. After moving a second façade on Sunday night, there was very little Letup for the western parts of the Southern Island, which was now rented with more heavy rain. Although the winds are not very severe this time, a similar amount of rainfall is expected.
The South China is preparing for the Super Typhoon Ragasa, which sweeps the northern end of the Philippines as a barrel expected on Wednesday. The current estimates show that Ragasa will hit the Leizhou Peninsula before moving to the Gulf of Tonkin to North Vietnam. Ragasa quickly concentrated on Saturday, reached the average wind speeds of 165Mph equivalent to the category 5 hurricane, and the wind -breaking wind can bring Gusts to Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macau.
