Weather tracker: monsoon rains cause deadly floods in Pakistan and India | Pakistan
The heavy monsoon rains continued to pummmel the Indian sub -continent last week, brought destructive floods and landslides, and in recent years, one of the most deadly monsoon seasons, leaving hundreds of people dead.
The damp air from the Gulf of Bengal and the Arab Sea was deported to Pakistan and North West India by the powerful southwestern monsoon winds late last week. Combined with low -pressure developing areas, it provided a series of severe downpour.
Last Friday, more than 300 people were killed in the mountainous regions of Northern Pakistan and India, after cloud explosions exceeding 100 mm. In the Bunner region, 150mm was recorded in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in just one hour. DingPours released the destructive flash floods sweeping from the valleys and villages carrying rock and debris.
Only more than 240 people died in that single event, which made it the most disastrous part of the season. Since the beginning of the monsoon in late May, the Pakistan National Disaster Management Management Institution estimates that about 750 people have died.
Further south, Mumbai endured excessive rainfall last week. Between 15 and 19 August, a part of the city recorded 837 mm rain – compared to the annual average for Southern England – causing widespread and long -term floods. At least 21 people died, a man who has electric after entering the flood waters containing a vibrant wire.
Transportation was severely broken, roads were diluted, train services have stopped having hundreds of stranded on platforms and a large number of flights were canceled or guided. As the Mithi River approached to explode the banks, hundreds of quietly were evacuated in the near low neighborhoods.
Elsewhere, the heat wave, which maintains most of Europe for more than a week, was finally broken and replaced with severe storms. On Wednesdays and Thursdays, about 500,000 lightning strikes were detected on the continent, most of them, most of the Southern France, Italy and the Balkans.
Italy carried the burden of storms fed by an unusual hot Mediterranean, and allowed to clash with the hot air mass built during the heat wave of the humid unstable air. From the storms, torrential rainfall triggered the roads that were removed from the root and blocking the roads and swept the cars in the Sicily rivers and detonated their banks. A person remains lost.
