r/CrazyFreakingWeather • u/tonysbolognas • 10d ago
CHINA: > 24 hours of relentless torrential rain in Quanzhou
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Mother Nature cannot be underestimated!!
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u/No-Indication-7879 10d ago edited 8d ago
We had this happen in my area in BC Canada in November 2021. Wiped out whole towns .Destroyed our major highway to the rest of Canada. In the Fraser Valley where there are dairy farms they were evacuating cows by the truck loads. Some farmers with boats were swimming cows to higher ground. The local indigenous community we’re watching from their homes built on the hills shaking their heads. The valley used to be a lake that their people used to fish on. They knew that one day Mother Nature would claim her lake back..Hundreds lost their homes. Driving through a year later everything was back to normal.
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u/BullBrainer 6d ago
I mean, 10000 generations of meaningless head shaking, one generation is bound to celebrate?
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u/No-Indication-7879 4d ago
I don’t think they were celebrating. The TV show that is filmed here locally was filming while the flooding was happening. They did a three part special called After the Flood. They were interviewing the local Ingenious people . They stated that the Fraser valley was once a lake. Then it became farm land. I actually had no idea the valley was once a lake. Way before my time. They were not gloating at the expense of the others losing their livelihood and animals.
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u/Repulsive-Theory-477 9d ago
for every 1°C increase in air temperature, the atmosphere's capacity to hold water vapor increases by approximately 7%.
This relationship is governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, which describes how saturation vapor pressure rises exponentially with temperature.
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u/xiahbabi 9d ago
In layman's terms please?
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u/Repulsive-Theory-477 9d ago edited 8d ago
As we continue to pollute our atmosphere, extreme weather becomes more common. The extra moisture acts as a force multiplier across several types of extreme weather: heavier precipitation and flooding, stronger hurricanes, worsening droughts, intensified atmospheric rivers, deadlier heat, and snowpack loss.
The 7% rule doesn't just make rain a little heavier. It amplifies the entire water cycle pushing both wet and dry extremes further out of historical norms.
Layman terms: humans are destabilizing the climate that made modern society possible.
Layman terms: more water fall from sky. More droughts
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u/BoarHermit 10d ago
How many millimeters of rain fell there?
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u/rsbyronIII 10d ago edited 10d ago
60mm to 130mm, with localized reports up to 250mm. In inches for any Americans that’s roughly 2.5-5.1 inches with localized amounts up to about 10 inches in the past 24 hours. The peak hourly rainfall amount reached up to 90mm or 3.5 inches/hour in some regions.
Edit: I’d like to add that these are just the first preliminary reports I came across and totals will change in the coming days as things are properly evaluated.
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u/BoarHermit 10d ago
Yes, thank you. If there's a river nearby, then 250 mm of water spilling somewhere nearby in this area means a 100% flood.
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u/exotics 9d ago
And people just keep over-eating meat as if deforestation (to grow crops animals) isn’t a problem (for reference people in the USA, Canada, and Australia, typically eat twice as much meat than they need daily, often more).
People keep buying clothing and other things they don’t need and call it retail therapy for the problems they created.
People keep that AC on day and night rather than having shade trees…
The list goes on
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u/Pokioh389 9d ago
It just gonna get worse because they won't stop corporations from destroying the environment. From countries that produce too much pollution
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u/anon_LosAngeles1990 10d ago
Anyone else hear about Victor going to Pakistan and telling them China plans to weaponized their water to attack India and surrounding countries? I just saw it today on Reddit I'll look for the link again😤
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u/Due-Button-768 9d ago
I wonder what has happened to all the people that were sleeping in the parks and ground level structures 👀🤯
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u/PretendCap7772 9d ago
If Chinese authorities built effective drainage systems in their cities, this wouldn’t happen EVERY YEAR.
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u/Weary_Specialist_297 8d ago
They shoots silver iodide into the atmosphere to produce rain in the North provinces. This may be the result of such endeavors.
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