The U.K., suffering from limits on water use because of a drought lasting 22 months, had its wettest April since at least 1910, the Met Office said.
With more rain forecast tonight, the U.K. has had 121.8 millimeters (4.8 inches) this month, beating the prior record of 120.3 millimeters in 2000 and compared with an average for April of 69.6 millimeters, the state forecaster said in a statement.
“Further rain is to come overnight tonight as outbreaks of heavy and possibly thundery rain affect southern England and Wales,” the Met Office said today in the statement.
Rain has led to 188 flood warnings and alerts across Wales and England, including for the Thames river west of London and around the city of Oxford, the Environment Agency said.
The wet month follows the fifth driest March on record, the Met Office said. April has also been cooler on average than March for the first time since 1998, it said. Figures to April 25 show the mean temperature this month has been 6.1 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit), after March’s 7.7 degrees.
Kemble Water Holdings Ltd.’s Thames Water unit, the U.K.’s largest water company serving 8.8 million homes and businesses in London, joined six other utilities by imposing restrictions on consumption, from April 5. Hose-pipe bans limit the use of garden hoses to water yards, wash cars, fill pools, ponds and fountains, and clean windows, walls and patios.
Liscombe in Somerset has had the most rainfall this month with 273.8 millimeters, more than three times the average.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-30/u-dot-k-dot-posts-wettest-april-in-102-year-record-met-office-says
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Bulgaria Greece Battle massive floods
Dozens of homes are underwater in Bulgaria and Greece as Europe continues to battle extreme weather.
Bulgaria's civil defence agency warned that two other, bigger dams were also on the brink of spilling over and residents were urged to prepare for an evacuation. Authorities have started a controlled release of water from the dams to prevent overflow.
Europeans across the continent have been battling more than a week of extreme weather, with thousands still trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans; hundreds - most of them homeless - dead after temperatures hit as low as minus 36 Celsius; and authorities now facing the prospect of flooding caused by melting snow.
A day after the dam burst, the Bulgarian government declared a day of mourning, and streets in the village of Bisser were covered with sticky mud as people returned to their water-logged homes.
At least a dozen houses had collapsed, uprooted trees blocked roads and smashed cars sat abandoned along deserted streets. Veterinary officials were collecting the bodies of dead animals from streets still covered in snow.
Further south, the heavy rain caused the Maritsa River to overflow its banks, leaving dozens of homes under water in the city of Svilengrad near the Greek border. Rescue crews helped transport nearly 100 residents to temporary shelters.
In Greece, rescuers had to help five elderly people escape from their flooded homes after the river Evros burst its banks near the country's northeastern border with Bulgaria. Several elderly residents were also evacuated overnight from another three villages in the area.
Greek civil protection authorities said a 40-year-old woman was drowned by a flash flood on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Symi late on Monday, but no major damage was reported on the island. Heavy snowfall was reported across northern Greece, hampering road traffic and causing some power cuts in remote areas.
The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday that an incursion of cold polar air from northern Russia brought extremely low temperatures over large parts of Europe.
The cold air was fed with strong moisture from the central Mediterranean Sea, causing heavy snowfall over parts of southeastern Europe.
Snow also caused headaches further north. Serbian emergency officials say the army will use explosives to break up ice on the Danube and Ibar rivers to try to prevent the possibility of flooding.
A 30-year-old woman died when large pieces of ice and snow collapsed on her in a suburb of the capital, Belgrade.
In Poland, meanwhile, the big freeze has killed another six people in the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said on Tuesday that three other people died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide from heaters they were using in their homes.
Lithuanian officials said 23 people have died so far this year due to sub-freezing temperatures in the tiny Baltic republic of three million.
Italy remained in the grip of a bitter cold spell, with reports of people freezing to death. Low temperatures have even caused parts of the Grand Canal in the lagoon city of Venice to freeze over, while the south of Italy, which usually enjoys a mild climate, has seen snow that has caused power outages to thousands of people.
In Romania, snow and high winds have cut off 127 communities and blocked 237 county roads, and 1,100 people were stranded overnight in two trains.
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=716227&vId=
Bulgaria's civil defence agency warned that two other, bigger dams were also on the brink of spilling over and residents were urged to prepare for an evacuation. Authorities have started a controlled release of water from the dams to prevent overflow.
Europeans across the continent have been battling more than a week of extreme weather, with thousands still trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans; hundreds - most of them homeless - dead after temperatures hit as low as minus 36 Celsius; and authorities now facing the prospect of flooding caused by melting snow.
A day after the dam burst, the Bulgarian government declared a day of mourning, and streets in the village of Bisser were covered with sticky mud as people returned to their water-logged homes.
At least a dozen houses had collapsed, uprooted trees blocked roads and smashed cars sat abandoned along deserted streets. Veterinary officials were collecting the bodies of dead animals from streets still covered in snow.
Further south, the heavy rain caused the Maritsa River to overflow its banks, leaving dozens of homes under water in the city of Svilengrad near the Greek border. Rescue crews helped transport nearly 100 residents to temporary shelters.
In Greece, rescuers had to help five elderly people escape from their flooded homes after the river Evros burst its banks near the country's northeastern border with Bulgaria. Several elderly residents were also evacuated overnight from another three villages in the area.
Greek civil protection authorities said a 40-year-old woman was drowned by a flash flood on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Symi late on Monday, but no major damage was reported on the island. Heavy snowfall was reported across northern Greece, hampering road traffic and causing some power cuts in remote areas.
The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday that an incursion of cold polar air from northern Russia brought extremely low temperatures over large parts of Europe.
The cold air was fed with strong moisture from the central Mediterranean Sea, causing heavy snowfall over parts of southeastern Europe.
Snow also caused headaches further north. Serbian emergency officials say the army will use explosives to break up ice on the Danube and Ibar rivers to try to prevent the possibility of flooding.
A 30-year-old woman died when large pieces of ice and snow collapsed on her in a suburb of the capital, Belgrade.
In Poland, meanwhile, the big freeze has killed another six people in the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said on Tuesday that three other people died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide from heaters they were using in their homes.
Lithuanian officials said 23 people have died so far this year due to sub-freezing temperatures in the tiny Baltic republic of three million.
Italy remained in the grip of a bitter cold spell, with reports of people freezing to death. Low temperatures have even caused parts of the Grand Canal in the lagoon city of Venice to freeze over, while the south of Italy, which usually enjoys a mild climate, has seen snow that has caused power outages to thousands of people.
In Romania, snow and high winds have cut off 127 communities and blocked 237 county roads, and 1,100 people were stranded overnight in two trains.
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=716227&vId=
Monday, January 9, 2012
Floods in Java on New Years Day
New Year’s Day Rains Bring Floods To Cities and Villages Across Java
Dessy Sagita & Hangga Brata | January 03, 2012
Dessy Sagita & Hangga Brata | January 03, 2012
At least 10 areas across Java were flooded as the country welcomed what is expected to be a wet and miserable January as the rainy season reaches its peak.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said swaths of four provinces had been flooded since late on Sunday and through most of Monday.
He said Solo, Bungo, Sragen, Klaten and Brebes in Central Java, East Java’s Nganjuk and Pasuruan, Yogyakarta’s Yogyakarta city and Sleman and West Java’s Banjar had all been affected.
“January is the height of the rainy season for most of Indonesia, so the threat of flooding will increase,” he said.
Heavy rains in Solo caused the Bengawan Solo River to burst its banks, flooding much of the city.
“The water entered our house so quickly I had to evacuate my family, bringing only the bare essentials,” said Wardiman, who lives on the banks of the river. “It was raining hard [on Sunday] and we were unprepared.”
Sumarni, another Solo resident, said people were wary every time they saw dark clouds, fearing more flooding could be on the way.
Authorities in Solo estimated at least 2,500 people were affected by Sunday’s flooding.
Neighboring Sukoharjo city was also flooded, with some 4,400 people being forced from their homes.
Several of the rivers that cross through the city of Sragen also overflowed, cutting off the main road linking Solo and Surabaya, the capital of East Java, with some areas under a meter of water.
Heavy rains in Sleman caused the Code River to overflow, flooding parts of Yogyakarta city.
Rains on Mount Merapi, which erupted in 2010, killing more than 300 people, sent torrents of volcanic mud into the river, causing damage to homes in Klaten.
The heavy rains overwhelmed dams containing the Ciapit, Bancang and Kabuyutan rivers, flooding a number of homes in Brebes district.
In Pasuruan, at least 2,600 homes in eight villages were inundated after heavy rains that started at about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday and lasted through Monday morning pounded the area.
Antara, the state-run news agency, reported that flooding also occurred in Banyumas, Central Java. The Serayu River overflowed and inundated hundreds of hectares of farmland in the district, with some areas under a meter of water. Sarwito, a Banyumas resident, said that the water began to rise on Sunday evening and started to breach the dikes early on Monday.
Antara also reported that heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in East Java’s Jember district. “At least 10 houses were heavily damaged in the landslides. Four bridges were damaged. One that linked Jalinan village and Sumberlanas village was completely destroyed,” the news agency quoted Eko Heru Sunarso, head of Silo subdistrict, one of the worst affected areas in Jember, as saying.
Floods were also reported in the West Malaka subdistrict of Belu, in East Nusa Tenggara, a few hour’s drive from the East Timor border. The head of the subdistrict, Anselmus Nahak, told Antara on Monday that at least five villages there had been affected by flooding since Sunday, after a dam on the Benanain River burst following heavy rains. “We are still trying to control the overflow by getting villages to build dikes,” he said.
In South Sumatra, where for the last five days at least 11 villages in Musi Rawas district have been flooded, waters began to recede on Monday. “We are urging people living along the Rawas and Musi rivers to stay vigilant considering that the intensity of rains is still high,” said the head of the district’s social affairs office, Faisol.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said swaths of four provinces had been flooded since late on Sunday and through most of Monday.
He said Solo, Bungo, Sragen, Klaten and Brebes in Central Java, East Java’s Nganjuk and Pasuruan, Yogyakarta’s Yogyakarta city and Sleman and West Java’s Banjar had all been affected.
“January is the height of the rainy season for most of Indonesia, so the threat of flooding will increase,” he said.
Heavy rains in Solo caused the Bengawan Solo River to burst its banks, flooding much of the city.
“The water entered our house so quickly I had to evacuate my family, bringing only the bare essentials,” said Wardiman, who lives on the banks of the river. “It was raining hard [on Sunday] and we were unprepared.”
Sumarni, another Solo resident, said people were wary every time they saw dark clouds, fearing more flooding could be on the way.
Authorities in Solo estimated at least 2,500 people were affected by Sunday’s flooding.
Neighboring Sukoharjo city was also flooded, with some 4,400 people being forced from their homes.
Several of the rivers that cross through the city of Sragen also overflowed, cutting off the main road linking Solo and Surabaya, the capital of East Java, with some areas under a meter of water.
Heavy rains in Sleman caused the Code River to overflow, flooding parts of Yogyakarta city.
Rains on Mount Merapi, which erupted in 2010, killing more than 300 people, sent torrents of volcanic mud into the river, causing damage to homes in Klaten.
The heavy rains overwhelmed dams containing the Ciapit, Bancang and Kabuyutan rivers, flooding a number of homes in Brebes district.
In Pasuruan, at least 2,600 homes in eight villages were inundated after heavy rains that started at about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday and lasted through Monday morning pounded the area.
Antara, the state-run news agency, reported that flooding also occurred in Banyumas, Central Java. The Serayu River overflowed and inundated hundreds of hectares of farmland in the district, with some areas under a meter of water. Sarwito, a Banyumas resident, said that the water began to rise on Sunday evening and started to breach the dikes early on Monday.
Antara also reported that heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in East Java’s Jember district. “At least 10 houses were heavily damaged in the landslides. Four bridges were damaged. One that linked Jalinan village and Sumberlanas village was completely destroyed,” the news agency quoted Eko Heru Sunarso, head of Silo subdistrict, one of the worst affected areas in Jember, as saying.
Floods were also reported in the West Malaka subdistrict of Belu, in East Nusa Tenggara, a few hour’s drive from the East Timor border. The head of the subdistrict, Anselmus Nahak, told Antara on Monday that at least five villages there had been affected by flooding since Sunday, after a dam on the Benanain River burst following heavy rains. “We are still trying to control the overflow by getting villages to build dikes,” he said.
In South Sumatra, where for the last five days at least 11 villages in Musi Rawas district have been flooded, waters began to recede on Monday. “We are urging people living along the Rawas and Musi rivers to stay vigilant considering that the intensity of rains is still high,” said the head of the district’s social affairs office, Faisol.
Thailand Floods Worst Ever
Thailand Floods 2011
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Thailand is currently facing its worst flooding in 50 years. Flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country, submerging rice fields and shutting down hundreds of factories while over 900,000 families and businesses have been impacted and hundreds of lives have been tragically lost. National relief efforts are now focused on providing essential food, clean water and shelter to displaced people and restoring damaged infrastructure to the Kingdom of Smiles.
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