Monday, January 23, 2012

When Tropical Storm Washi ripped through the southern Philippine city of Cagayan de Oro last weekend, it dumped in one day more than the city's entire average rainfall for the month of December.
According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, a total of 181 millimeters of rainfall was recorded in the area last Friday, compared to the expected 99.9 millimeters for the whole month.
The devastating flash floods, which have so far claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, arrived just weeks after a report from the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change indicated that global warming has significantly increased the number of people at risk from flooding globally.
The report, "Climate: Observations, projections and impacts," examined how climate change will modify the weather in 24 countries around the world.
While findings vary from region to region, it forecasts an overall increase in this century of coastal and river floods, extreme weather events and a global temperature rise of between 3-5C, if emissions are left unchecked.
According to climate change experts, cities from New York in the U.S. to Dhaka in Bangladesh are likely to be heavily affected.CNN INFORMATION

i think that the wethear that is like that is very dengerous becouse the people can have accident becouse they canot see or somthing like that the wethear like that is very cold i think that the people that live in that country have to ve bery ceorfuli in what they are doing.

Brooklyn Bridge stands shrouded in heavy rain and dark clouds as Hurricane Irene reaches the New York City area on August 28, 2011. According to Jan Corfee-Morlot, senior climate change analyst for the OECD, many developed coastal cities around the world face a "severe risk" of floods in the coming years.




Before London authorities built the Thames barrier, the city was prone to floods in times of high tide, as illustrated in this scene from 1963. But, according to Dr Doug Crawford-Brown, executive director at Cambridge University's Centre for Climate Mitigation Research, England's capital may face a return to its deluged days, if extreme rainfall patterns overwhelm current drainage systems.

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