2nd August - Today's News: Record Rainfall in Parts of North America
In the US, the rain that caused deadly Md. flood a '1-in-1,000' year event - they seem to be getting a few of them just lately .... Meanwhile, in Canada, Calgary hasn't had this much rain in July since 1927 and in Alaska record rain continues to drench Fairbanks
India's capital Delhi gets record-breaking amount of rain in 24 hours as monsoon rains kill dozens in India, Bangladesh
And there's also been record rainfall for Tasmania as farmers continue 'wet paddock' struggle
In Wales, people rescued from flood water as more rain falls on first day of August than whole of July.
Here we had 9.8mm of rain overnight which is just 0.5mm short of my
total for the whole of July. The point being not that anywhere had an
unusual amount of rain, just that July was very unusually dry in some
places ....
Predictions of flooding and drought in opposing mountain ranges
A suggestion that some of the last woolly mammoths 'died of thirst'
And back on the rain front, confirmation that 2015 saw Britain experience exceptional rainfall and mildest December in at least 350 years
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