Thursday, January 13, 2011

21 dead, 270,000 homeless in Sri Lankan floods ... http://ow.ly/3D34y
La Nina causes flooding in eastern Sri Lanka and the Philippines .. http://ow.ly/3D345

Flooding in Australia


The airport, the Bruce Highway, and large swaths of Rockhampton, Australia, remained under water on January 9, 2011. Days of rain pushed the Fitzroy River over its banks, inundating parts of the city near the Queensland coast. Damage to the Bruce Highway was not confined to Rockhampton, as ABC News Australia reported other parts of the highway were expected to remain under water for some time.
In this image, acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on January 9, 2011, isolated islands of cityscape poke through murky brown flood waters. The Fitzroy River cuts through the upper right quadrant of the image and, just west of the river, relatively high land remains above the flood.
Rockhampton was just one of many Australian communities reeling from floods. Farmers along the Sunshine Coast were stranded by high waters that washed out roads. Authorities in Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city, told residents to evacuate in anticipation of the worst flooding in several decades.
Another western disturbance will start affecting W. Kashmir from 17/18-Jan again ... more snow days to come.
Western disturbance for Kashmir, Himachal from today till 16-Jan... Heavy snow/rain possible on 14,15-Jan... http://ow.ly/i/7bH2
Medium showers or drizzles possible for S, S-E coastal Tamilnadu from today till 17-Jan.. due to "90B".
UAC "90B" is expected to move slowly in S-W direction and then towards WEST on 16-Jan... a slow moving and stubborn rain making system.
UAC "90B" over S-W Bay lying close to S-E Srilanka... for the 3rd day now ... http://ow.ly/i/7bGH
Chennai - Today morning records 18.7 deg C
Pre W.D. rise in min temperature over NW India on Wednesdsay... http://ow.ly/3CZPm