Kraftiga översvämningar och extremväder i flera regioner i Kina

Since May, some areas of mainland China have been hit by extreme weather, sandstorms, snowfall, along with 12 tornadoes, hail and other abnormal weather. On May 26, hail and thunderstorms swept through 13 provinces and cities again, ruthlessly hitting people’s livelihoods. In Southern China, 79 rivers flooded and the water levels reached over the warning line, drawing fear of repeating last year’s extreme flooding.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is bracing for a heavy flood season with 71 rivers already exceeding warning levels, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, as meteorological authorities warned that global warming is fuelling more extreme weather.

Rain in some parts of central and southern China has hit record highs in recent weeks even though overall precipitation is about 10% lower this year compared with last year, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

Water levels on the Yangtze and its tributaries were expected to rise further over the next week, the ministry said, and it warned of major floods throughout the country from June to August.

There has been surprisingly little international reporting of a very serious double earthen dam failure in the Hulunbuir area of Inner Mongolia in northern China on Sunday 18 July 2021. This looks to have been one of the most serious dam failure events in recent years, with 46 million cubic metres of water having been released, causing massive flooding. Reuters has a report of the event, but there are few other outlets providing much attention to it.

(Zerohedge) – A dam near the city of Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province has been destroyed by heavy flooding, after being seriously damaged in heavy storms that killed several people and brought the region to a halt, local media reported.