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also missing is yet another aspect of a very complex system - parched soil has lower ability to retain water. These floods follow an intense heatwave during whi
by eldaisfish 4y ago
also missing is yet another aspect of a very complex system - parched soil has lower ability to retain water. These floods follow an intense heatwave during which large swathes of pakistani soil dried up. Come the rains and you have a massive problem.
Like you say, this is just the beginning. If floods like this happen in the Indian plains - and they will - the human and social costs will be immense.
- dylan604 4y agowe just saw this in the DFW area last week. 3 months of triple digit temps and zero precip followed by a single 24 hour period receiving 5-7" of rain. the ground was so hard, that it might as well have been concrete. that just allowed all of the water to run off into the streams that fed the lakes. fortunately, those lakes were well below normal levels, so this just helped them come back to where they were. if there were multiple days of that level of rain, a la Harvey, we'd have been really screwed.