In current weeks, heavy rains and floods have affected many elements of India. As a consequence of this, many individuals have misplaced their lives and 1000’s have been displaced.
It isn’t unusual for floods to happen in India or South Asia throughout these months of the 12 months when there’s essentially the most rainfall.
However local weather change has made monsoon rains extra irregular, akin to after an extended interval of drought, a spot all of the sudden receives torrential rain in a really brief time.
Now scientists say {that a} kind of storm with an enormous improve in humidity as a consequence of world warming is worsening the state of affairs. This storm is called ‘atmospheric river’ or ‘atmospheric river’.
These storms fashioned within the sky are additionally known as “flying rivers” or “atmospheric rivers”. They’re like ribbon bands of water vapor which can be fashioned by evaporation from the nice and cozy sea and are invisible.
These vapors type a band within the decrease environment that strikes from the tropics to colder areas and fall as rain or snow.
It’s harmful sufficient to trigger flooding or a devastating blizzard in an space.
These “flying rivers” carry 90 p.c of the whole water vapor and go over the mid-latitudes of the Earth. On common, they include twice as a lot water because the Amazon River usually flows.
The Amazon River is the world’s largest river by quantity of water.
Because the Earth warms, scientists say these ‘atmospheric rivers’ have gotten bigger, wider and extra intense. This has elevated the danger of flooding for billions of individuals all over the world.
Meteorologists in India say the warming of the Indian Ocean is creating “flying rivers” which can be affecting the monsoon rains within the area between June and September.