Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, made two landfalls in China on Sep 6, first striking Hainan and later Guangdong province.
The temperature at Dayrestan Airport was noted as 38.8°C at 10:30 am on Aug 28, according to data from the US National Weather Service, which gathers global data from METAR reports used by aviation and meteorology professionals.
Heavy rains have lashed Gujarat since Aug 24 which caused waterlogging in low-lying areas. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the state till Aug 30 as heavy to extremely heavy rain has been predicted with a risk of flash floods in the region.
Due to the differences in circadian rhythms between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, some cheetahs developed thick winter coats during the Indian summer and monsoon last year, anticipating the African winter (June to September).
The landslide occurred at the NHPC’s 510 MW Teesta-V hydropower station site in Dipudara, near Singtam town in the Gangtok district. The site had already been affected by a glacial lake outburst flood in October 2023.
The weather department predicted heavy rainfall (7 cm to 11 cm in 24 hours) to very heavy rainfall (12 cm to 20 cm in 24 hours) in one or two places in Ernakulam, Thrissur, and Kannur on Aug 14, and in Kozhikode and Wayanad on Aug 15.
The rainfall, which reached 140 mm in just one day, is described as a “once in a 50-year event” for Wayanad, marking it as the third highest single-day rainfall on record for the area.
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