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]]>The weather agency predicts widespread rainfall activity in the southern half of the country over the next 24 hours, with Telangana receiving isolated very heavy amounts today.
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]]>The report found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate change, as the planet has surpassed more than 1 degree Celsius in average warming. Heat waves, droughts and torrential rains are only set to become more frequent and extreme as the earth warms further.
It is the first time that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has quantified the likelihood of these extreme events in a wide variety of scenarios.
The report found that once-in-a-decade heavy rain events are now 1.3 times more likely and 6.7% wetter, compared with the 50 years up to 1900 when major human-driven warming started to occur.
Previously once-in-a-decade droughts could happen every five or six years.
Scientists emphasized that these effects of climate change are already here, with events like the heat wave in the U.S. Pacific Northwest killing hundreds in June and Brazil currently experiencing its worst drought in 91 years.
“The heat wave in Canada, fires in California, floods in Germany, floods in China, droughts in central Brazil make it very, very clear that climate extremes are having a very heavy toll,” said Paulo Artaxo, a lead author of the report and an environmental physicist and the University of Sao Paulo.
The future looks even grimmer, with more warming meaning more frequent extreme events.
Heat waves show stronger increases in frequency with warming than all other extreme events. Twice in a century heat waves could happen roughly every six years with 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, a level which the report says could be surpassed within two decades.
Should the world become 4 degrees Celsius hotter, as could happen in a high-emissions scenario, those heat waves would happen every one to two years.
Carolina Vera, another report author and a physical climate scientist at University of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s main agency for science research (CONICET), said there is also an increasing likelihood that multiple extreme weather events could happen at the same time.
For example, extreme heat, drought and high winds – conditions that could feed wildfires – are more likely to happen at the same time.
The IPCC has a medium or high-level confidence that many important agricultural regions around the world will see more droughts or extreme rain. That includes parts of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil that are major growers of soybeans and other global commodities.
“It is scary, sure, with the risk that fires, heat waves, droughts will affect humans in the form of weather and food insecurity, energy insecurity, water quality and health – mainly in poor regions,” said Jose Marengo, a climatologist at the Brazilian Science Ministry’s disaster monitoring center.
Marengo was not involved in the IPCC report.
For example, regions that are already prone to drought are likely to experience them more frequently, including in the Mediterranean, southern Australia, and western North America, said Friederike Otto, IPCC author and climatologist at University of Oxford.
Increased frequency of drought and heavy rain also are not mutually exclusive and are predicted in places like Southern Africa, she said.
The projections on extreme weather events laid out in the report reinforce the importance of curbing climate change to the levels laid out in the Paris Agreement, scientists said.
“If we stabilize at 1.5 degrees, we can stop them from getting much worse,” Otto said.
(This story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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]]>According to the department, the rainfall throughout Northwestern India is very probable from July 9 on and the isolated severe pluvial rainfall is most likely in Uttarakhand from July 8. The rainfall is also very likely over Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh from July 9.
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]]>A Central Railway spokesperson told PTI that the suburban train services between Dadar and Kurla stations on the main line were suspended after the water rose above the track level, while a Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) official said that several of its buses had to be diverted due to water-logging at some points. Waterlogging was witnessed at several locations in Bandra East, Hindmata, King’s Circle, Kurla Kamani and Wadala, with BEST diverting its buses on at least 17 locations due to waterlogging on roads.
Mumbai has been receiving heavy rainfall since the last few days, and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the city on Sunday and orange alert for June 14 (Monday). After the IMD’s forecast, the BMC also issued a “high alert” to all the agencies considering “very heavy rainfall” in the next two days.
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]]>The weather agency forecast heavy shower at a few places with extremely heavy rains at isolated places over Chhattisgarh and Odisha. Most of east India and adjoining central India will witness widespread rainfall activity with heavy to very heavy fall from Friday under the influence of the low pressure area.
“Heavy to Very Heavy Rainfall at a few places over Konkan & Goa and at isolated places over East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam and Heavy Rainfall at isolated places over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam & Meghalaya, Gujarat Region, Madhya Maharashtra (ghat areas), Telangana and Coastal Karnataka,” IMD said in its bulletin.
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]]>With heavy rains causing water-logging, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray directed the administration to ensure that the accumulated rainwater is drained out at the earliest and transport resumed. Thackeray spoke to the control rooms in Mumbai and collectors of Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Palghar districts as incessant rains led to the inundation of several areas, affecting the normal life. The Chief Minister’s Office said the Met department has declared the arrival of monsoon and predicted medium to very heavy rains in the next three days.
IMD Mumbai Deputy Director General Dr Jayanta Sarkar told news agency ANI, “Monsoon has arrived in Mumbai today, normal arrival date is 10th June every year so it has arrived prior to the average arrival date.”
Central railway PRO said local train services between Kurla and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus have been halted as water is flowing over tracks between Kurla and Sion railway stations. “Traffic stopped at 9.50 am, decision taken as a precautionary measure to avoid any untoward incident. Traffic will resume as soon as water recedes,” he added.
Mumbai’s Colaba and Santacruz recorded 65.4 mm and 50.4 mm of rainfall respectively between 8:30 am on Tuesday and 5:30 am on Wednesday. South Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rainfall since late Tuesday night. Entire stretch of Breach Candy has been waterlogged and footpath too has been submerged. Rainfall also caused low visibility on eastern freeway.
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]]>The IMD has also predicted water eruption in various areas which will cause major traffic disruption. Delhi and the neighbouring areas have received a moderate rainfall today. According to the weather office, the rainfall is most likely to decrease on Thursday.
The highest temperature in the moved to a bit more than 30 degrees celsius because of the wind and the rainfall. This is the lowest temperature recorded in the month of May since the last four years.
heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over northwest Uttar Pradesh; and heavy rainfall at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, rest parts of Uttar Pradesh, northeast Rajasthan and north Madhya Pradesh on 19 May, 2021.
— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) May 19, 2021
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]]>He wrote,”There is an eerie silence in the midst of the cyclone…the pounding and the lashing rains all day.. trees fell, leakages all over, flooding in the vulnerable Janak Office..impromptu plastic cover sheets still in prep for the heavy monsoon rain, ripped apart.. sheds and shelters for some staff blown away.. BUT the spirit of fight impregnable… all hands on deck… stepping out, repairing, preventing helping in extenuating circumstances drenched.. but on it”.
He added that the staff is simply amazing in such conditions, their uniforms were wet and dripping but they continued. The megastar also gave them an immediate change of clothes from his own wardrobe. He also tweeted,”T 3906- The winds and the rain of cyclone Tauktae lashes us with intense ferocity.. my prayers for all to be safe and protected”.
T 3907 – इन संकट की घड़ियों में, प्रार्थना, प्रार्थना, प्रार्थना !
श्री काशी विश्वनाथ,#वाराणसी,
दि.17.5.2021 के सप्तऋषि /संध्या आरती के दर्शन।
हर हर महादेव
ॐ नम: शिवाय्pic.twitter.com/I612gZw61W
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) May 17, 2021
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