Yet another climate-enhanced natural disaster that American media ignores is unfolding across parts of Europe, bringing high ocean waves and heavy rainfall with significant urban flooding. It is another example that the world’s infrastructure is not built for a changing climate. The media and governments had best get to work.
We are caught with our pants down after having raised worldwide temperatures by the burning of fossil fuels aggravating rainfall distribution patterns across Earth. The atmosphere holds more water in the atmosphere when temperatures rise and combine with what is expected to be a super El Nino 2023 and 2024 will be interesting indeed. A new study has found that strong El Nino has caused a significant reduction in water availability in the Southern Hemisphere.
London dodged a bullet, but Ireland and other areas of the UK, France, and Italy did not, and the storm now covers most of Europe. Powerful winds knocked out windows and toppled trees, which brought down power lines. Deaths have been reported.
Storm Ciarán is an extratropical cyclone storm. It is a “rotating storm which forms outside the tropics) and unusual among North Atlantic storms, which rarely produce both heavy rain and high winds over large areas.”.
It has been three years since we saw an El Nino, and images out of Europe show a dangerous winter ahead.
Some of the most dramatic footage of flooding is from Tuscany in central Italy.
