Hunan province has been receiving heavy rainfall since the beginning of June. The historic rain in the central province has wreaked havoc on the rural and mountainous region. Further south in the Guangxi region, several villages were buried under mud after the relentless rainfall weakened the slopes of mountains and hillsides. The body count is incomplete as the rains have not ended as of today, but officially 25 have been confirmed dead. According to the Xinhua News Agency, hundreds of thousands have been evacuated, and 2 million people have been affected.
Hong Kong (CNN)Torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 25 people, impacted millions of residents and caused billions of yuan in economic losses, as the country grapples with increasingly devastating flood seasons fueled by climate change.
In recent weeks, heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding and landslides in large swathes of southern China, damaging homes, crops and roads.In Hunan province, 10 people have been killed this month and three remain missing, with 286,000 people evacuated and a total of 1.79 million residents affected, officials said at a news conference Wednesday.More than 2,700 houses have collapsed or suffered severe damage, and 96,160 hectares of crops have been destroyed -- heavy losses for a province that serves as a major rice-producing hub for China. Direct economic losses are estimated at more than 4 billion yuan ($600 million), according to officials.
The Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) is an anticyclonic atmospheric system hovering over the middle and lower troposphere of the northwestern Pacific, dominating summer climate extremes in the densely populated countries of East Asia.In the summer of 2020, an anomalously strong WPSH led to catastrophic floods with hundreds of deaths, 28,000 homes destroyed and tens of billions of dollars in economic damage in China alone.
Scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), recently found that the frequency of such strong WPSH events as seen in the summer of 2020 is likely to increase under the business-as-usual carbon emissions scenario, based on 32 climate models.
Their study was published in PNAS.
The interannual intensity of the WPSH is influenced by the variability of sea surface temperature (SST) in tropical regions such as the central Pacific and Indian Ocean. The anomalous SST can affect both local and remote rainfall and atmospheric convection, which in turn modulate atmospheric circulation over the northwestern Pacific.
Under global warming, rainfall and atmospheric convection can be more sensitive to SST variability. This is because saturation vapor pressure increases exponentially with increases in temperature. In a warmer climate, the mean-state moisture content of the atmosphere will increase and the response of tropical humidity and associated gross moist instability to SST anomalies will also be larger.
The horror of flooding in 2021.
China’s authoritarian government does not allow information to trickle out to the west. As you can see in the above tweet, the official count for deaths was a couple thousand. Whereas the Henan provincial party reported well over 700,000 fatalities, many drowned in subway cars.
This is the flooding that killed hundreds of thousands last year. Zhengzhou subways flood as the city experiences the most intense and horrid rainfall in a millennium
Xi and his henchmen are liars.