While unprecedented flooding cripples Britain and Texas and
hundreds die in Asian 'rain bombs,' the western United
States is experiencing drought so extreme that thousands of
square miles of desert and forest are burning, and the
persistence of the weather patterns suggest that they are
indicators of fundamental climate change.
Flooding in Britain has left three quarters of a million
people in Britain without drinkable water and 50,000 more
without power. Not even the great flood of 1947, which was
the benchmark for the past hundred years, was greater than
what is happening there now.
Rivers are overflowing, whole towns are cut off, vast areas
are under water, and the country's entire infrastructure is
threatened if the waters do not soon receed.
Every river in Texas is in flood stage right now, for the
first time since 1957. 'Rain bomb' is becoming a commonplace
term in the state, as communities experience explosive,
unprecedented rainfalls of 10 inches or more. On June 28,
Marble Falls, Texas, received 19 inches of rain.
Meanwhile, across Asia, unusually fierce seasonal rainfall
has killed hundreds, caused landslides, and disrupted travel
from India to Indonesia. At least 750 people have been
killed and an estimated two million left homeless by
flooding in an area that is well prepared for the seasonal
rainfall pattern called the monsoon. But this year's monsoon
has been a costly monster.
In all three cases, the unusual weather appears to be
related to changing ocean currents, but the scientific
evidence is not yet clear. Reduced Gulf Stream flow is
almost certainly affecting weather in Europe, and in
particular in the British Isles. The Texas storms are
related to a persisten weather pattern that is drawing
moisture off the Gulf of Mexico, and nobody really knows why
the Asian monsoon has bee so ferocious this year.
Across the western US, dozens of fires burned and millions
of acres remained under extreme threat of fire as many areas
experience their driest years on record.
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