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hatrack

(59,442 posts)
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 08:45 AM Oct 2021

29.2 Inches Of Rain In NW Italy In 12 Hours; New All-Time European Record, 50% + Annual Rainfall Avg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916
A river near Savona in Northern Italy is swollen after heavy rains in the region on Oct. 4. (Tano Pecoraro/LaPresse/AP)

An intense complex of thunderstorms stalled over northwestern Italy on Monday, unleashing a 12-hour torrent unrivaled in the history of European weather observations. It’s the latest extreme rain event supercharged by climate change that follows a summer of historic deluges in the Northern Hemisphere.

In just 12 hours, 29.2 inches of rain fell in Rossiglione in Italy’s Genoa province, roughly 65 miles south-southwest of Milan and 10 miles north of the Mediterranean coastline. It marked the greatest 12-hour rainfall on record in Europe, according to Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who specializes in world weather extremes. Extreme weather tormenting the planet will worsen because of global warming, U.N. panel finds

The amount of rain that came down in 12 hours is more than half the typical amount of rain that falls in the region over an entire year, which is just over 50 inches. It’s several times the average October rainfall of 6 to 7 inches.




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The large complex of storms bombarded much of Liguria, which is the northwestern region of Italy bordering France, resulting in flooding and mudslides. The storm complex was also a prolific lightning producer, generating more than a half-million strikes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916
A bridge in Quiliano, near Savona in Northern Italy, collapsed after heavy rains in the region on Oct. 4. (Tano Pecoraro/LaPresse/AP)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/05/italy-record-rainfall-/
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29.2 Inches Of Rain In NW Italy In 12 Hours; New All-Time European Record, 50% + Annual Rainfall Avg (Original Post) hatrack Oct 2021 OP
Welcome to climate change Botany Oct 2021 #1
insane! Kali Oct 2021 #2

Kali

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2. insane!
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 07:45 PM
Oct 2021

A friend who lives there just sent this article, did a site search to see if it was posted already.

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