This day in history September 29, 2019-monsoon rains
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Started by metmike - Sept. 30, 2019, 12:28 a.m.

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2019 – At least 59 people are reported dead due to monsoon rains in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. 350 people have died this year due to rain in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

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By metmike - Sept. 30, 2019, 12:33 a.m.
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Floods in India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_India


Role of climate change

Climate change has played an important role in causing large-scale floods across central India, including the Mumbai floods of 2006 and 2017. During 1901-2015, there has been a three-fold rise in widespread extreme rainfall events, across central and northern India – Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and parts of Western Ghats – Goa, north Karnataka and South Kerala.[13] The rising number of extreme rain events are attributed to an increase in the fluctuations of the monsoon westerly winds, due to increased warming in the Arabian Sea. This results in occasional surges of moisture transport from the Arabian Sea to the subcontinent, resulting in heavy rains lasting for 2–3 days, and spread over a region large enough to cause floods.


metmike: This is true. Though we are having a climate optimum, with the best weather/climate in the last 1,000 years and the biosphere is booming on this greening planet because of the increase in CO2, the 1 deg. C of mostly beneficial warming of the atmosphere means that it can hold 6% more moisture.

This has resulted in more rains, heavier rains and an increase in high end/excessive rain events!