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Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool'

Californians have been told to conserve water at home or risk mandated water restrictions as a severe drought on the West Coast is expected to get worse during the summer months.

People have been told to limit outdoor watering and take shorter showers. In Los Angeles, many are being asked to cut their water use by 35%. The restrictions come after California recorded the driest start to the year on record.

Nasa, which monitors changing water levels, is warning that the western United States is now entering one of the worst droughts ever seen.

"With climate change, it seems like the dominoes are beginning to fall," Nasa hydrologist JT Reager told the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61669233



The tropical weather caused a sewage overflow in Miami-Dade.

The impacts of the more than 11 inches of precipitation experienced during this severe weather event have led to a wastewater overflow at the facility,” reads a statement from the county.

“We are working hard to monitor our water quality and ensure the public’s safety, as we mitigate issues related to the extremely heavy rainfall received during this severe weather event,” said Roy Coley, Miami-Dade’s water and sewer director, in a statement.

The problem could be seen further inland at several locations in central Miami-Dade, where wastewater was flowing up into the street, popping off manhole covers at U.S. 1 and Southwest 17th Avenue, 6464 NE Fourth Ct., and the corner of Northwest Seventh Street and 10th Avenue.

Officials also asked residents not to open up manholes in order to drain their streets because adding more floodwater into the sewage system will worsen the problem. The county has also asked residents to decrease water consumption as much as possible because the system is still overwhelmed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-tropical-weather-caused-a-sewage-overflow-in-miami-dade-there-e2-80-99s-a-no-swim-advisory/ar-AAY5uca



Hurricane Agatha was the strongest hurricane to make landfall along the Pacific coast of Mexico in the month of May since records began in 1949.

On the evening of May 29, intense rainfall hit Acapulco, in Guerrero, blocking highways and amassing sea thrash on the beaches. A man was trapped in a sewage and was rescued by firefighters and the Red Cross.[29] According to a statement by Governor Alejandro Murat, 9 people were killed by the storm in Oaxaca and a further 6 people were missing.[2] Hardest hit were inland mountain villages, including Santa Catarina Xanaguía [es].[30] The fatalities were localized to these communities, with some people swept away by overflowing rivers or buried by mudslides.[31][30][32] Coastal regions were also heavily impacted. Bridges collapsed on throughfares leading to San Pedro Pochutla and Huatulco.[33] Power outages affected 70,082 people in Oaxaca and Veracruz according to the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), of which 46,563 were in Oaxaca.[34][35] Power disruptions cut off telecommunications to towns like San Isidro del Palmar.[36] The extent of the damage in Oaxaca prompted Governor Murat to request declarations of emergency for 26 municipalities.[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Agatha



Deadly Heatwave Also Resulting In Ozone Exceedance And It's Making Delhi's Air Toxic

Parts of central and northwestern India are still in the grip of a heat wave as the summer of 2022 continues to break records.

On Friday, a heat wave saw the mercury breaching the 45-degree Celsius mark in parts of New Delhi. The Met Office issued a yellow alert, warning of a heat wave at isolated places in the capital on Saturday.

The continuing heat wave is more bad news for the people of Delhi.

According to a new study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) the heat waves are also resulted in widespread ozone exceedance, making the air of Delhi-NCR more toxic.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/deadly-heatwave-also-resulting-in-ozone-exceedance-and-its-making-delhis-air-toxic/ar-AAY4vud



Drought, heat devastating Africa - farmers, herders suffering as food, water insecurity grows

The worst drought in at least four decades and sweltering temperatures have depleted the area's rivers and dams, driven thousands of destitute farmers from their lands and left those that remain reliant on pumps, boreholes and trucked-in water supplies. School attendance has plummeted and children as young as 6 are sent to get water, rolling yellow plastic drums for miles to collection points.

Aden Olow is among those who've been forced from their homes. After losing his 20th goat to the drought in late February, he set off from his village of Nunow near Garissa with the remains of his small herd in search of grazing in neighboring Somalia, leaving his wife Mumina Mohammed to look after their nine children. She's had to borrow money from local store owners to support the family.

"It's a very heavy responsibility to raise all these children alone. All of them need food and it's very stressful," Mohammed, 30, said in an interview. "Whenever there is rain, I'll expect my husband will come back."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, is leading to more extreme weather events and African nations are among those that will face heightened food and water insecurity. At least 16 million people are already at risk across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, according to the United Nations, and the threat of famine is clearly evident.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/05/drought-heat-devastating-africa/



Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere soars to levels not seen for millions of years, NOAA says

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times – and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal government scientists announced Friday.

“Carbon dioxide is at levels our species has never experienced before,” said Pieter Tans, senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Monitoring Laboratory.

The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas releases "greenhouse" gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The emissions have caused the planet's temperatures to rise to levels that cannot be explained by natural factors, scientists say.

Just in the past 20 years, the world's temperature has risen about two-thirds of a degree Fahrenheit, NOAA said.

https://news.yahoo.com/carbon-dioxide-earths-atmosphere-soars-203704764.html

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1. Currently raining here in NorCal. Most unexpected. Most welcome.

Not heavy but it helps reduce fire anxiety.

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2. It's raining right now - yeah