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Mabi, Kurashiki, Okayama In late June through mid-July 2018, successive heavy downpours in southwestern Japan resulted in widespread, devastating floods and mudflows.The event is officially referred to as Heisei san-jū-nen shichi-gatsu gōu (平成30年7月豪雨, "Heavy rain of July, Heisei 30") by the Japan Meteorological Agency. [1]
The climate from June to September is marked by hot, wet weather brought by tropical airflows from the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. [1] These air flows are full of moisture and deposit substantial amounts of rain when they reach land. [1] There is a marked rainy season, beginning in early June and continuing for about a month. [1]
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
A tornado crosses a field in Katy, Texas, on Dec. 28, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Travelers beware: Severe weather forecast says storms, tornadoes and snow
The same station recorded 31 in (790 mm) of rain in 12 hours. [20] Rain fell at over 5 in (130 mm) per hour in several places. [21] Flood depths in some locations exceeded those recorded in Hurricane Harvey due to the high rainfall rates. [22] Where rainfall was heaviest, the rainfall total represented a 1-in-1000-year rainfall event. [20]
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[154] [156] The rains constitute the most prolific rainfall event associated with a tropical cyclone in U.S. history, with the peak rainfall total of 60.58 in (1,539 mm) in Nederland, setting the national record for the largest rainfall total measured in connection to a tropical cyclone; [154] at least 18 observing sites report amounts ...
The remnants of an earlier tropical disturbance once situated over the Gulf of Mexico brought heavy rainfall and flooding to several states in the Deep South and Southeast during early June 2019. The states worst impacted by this storm were Texas and North Carolina, where over a month of, and in some cases, up to a foot of rain fell at certain ...