Monday, June 30, 2008

Heavy storm like never before

June 2008, we will remember it as rainy month, especially few days of heavy storm like nobody remembers. It was raining 4 days together. It started raining one night … actually it started with heavy storm and wind. We got in one hour more than 50mm of rain (see photo from my home weather station) what basically means 50 liters per 1 square meter, after 2,5 hours raining my rain meter showed already 100 mm of rain (100 liters per square meter). Some ground floors in the neighborhood were flooded and mud was flowing in streams through the valley (see photo). Water was everywhere and we were wet all over saving things in neighborhood. Do you think it is because of climate change, can we expect more of extreme weather? I think it is time to prepare for extreme weather conditions.