Flood waters lingered in Pakistan in late February 2011, roughly seven months after devastating monsoon rains first struck the country. Although significantly lower than in October 2010, and even December 2010, water levels were noticeably higher in February 2011 than they had been a year earlier.Acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS on NASA’s [...]
Signal: Pakistan flood of 2010
2010 weather more extreme: 21,000 dead
More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined. “It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves,” said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010. [...]
Floodwater lake in Pakistan still covers croplands
More than three months after floods first struck Pakistan, flood waters lingered west of the Indus River. At the beginning of November, the high waters were receding, but only slowly. Acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite, these false-color images show a portion of the Indus River and irrigated land [...]
Satellite images of continued flooding in Pakistan
New satellite images from NASA show the extraordinary scope of the continuing disaster in Pakistan, where thousands of square miles of land remain submerged two months after the country was hit by catastrophic flooding.
Daily flood reports from Pakistan
Daily flood reports from Pakistan are available at http://www.pff.org.pk/
Extreme weather driven by jet stream shift consistent with global warming
One might think that too much rain in Pakistan would have nothing to do with too little rain in Russia, but two expert analyses by CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller and Weather Underground meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters find that the two are connected. The Russian heat wave is associated with an intense dome of high atmospheric [...]
New weather pattern behind Pakistan floods
KARACHI — The super-floods that swept from Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa down to the southern end of Sindh are a harbinger of global climate change’s influence on South Asia, scientists argue. The UN said more than 20m survivors are trying to resume their lives in the flood’s wake. This year’s “extreme and unusual weather” represents [...]
Pakistan flooding driven by climate change: WMO
Excerpts from the NYT report: Devastating flooding that has swamped one-fifth of Pakistan and left millions homeless is likely the worst natural disaster to date attributable to climate change, U.N. officials and climatologists are now openly saying. Most experts are still cautioning against tying any specific event directly to emissions of greenhouse gases. But scientists [...]
