Extreme Weather. Photos from. Bashny.Net

Bad weather conditions and natural disasters have always been and will be. Unfair to say that the next hurricane or another severe winter - it certainly impacts of climate change. But do not deny the fact that in recent years the number of natural disasters and extreme weather conditions has increased significantly. Droughts are longer. Hurricanes beat stronger. Snowstorms raged long after the completed calendar winter. From the sky falls a record-sized hail. More recently, in China there was a first drought and then flooding. Millions of people have lost their shelter as a result of severe floods in Pakistan. In the USA, the Mississippi River overflowed its banks, and in Arizona raging wildfires. In principle, separate these events mean nothing. But can they mean together that the climate really is changing before our very eyes?

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1. In this image from the satellite, made by February 1, it is clear that in most of the US raging snowstorm, resulting from Texas to Rhode Island have closed roads and airports. Hurricane winds blow in the territory of more than 3200 kilometers and threatened about a third of the population. First all froze, and then fell in some places to 60 cm of snow.



2. Muhammad Nawaz flood victims clinging to the raft during the rescue of the Pakistani army in Sukkur August 10, 2010. Last year, Pakistan has passed one of the severe floods in the past 80 years, as a result of which millions of people were left homeless.



3. The woman received a head injury during a fight for food, distributed in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province.



4. The American rescue helicopter to the flood victims on Kallamom Pakistan



5. A man on a flooded street in Nowshera, Pakistan, August 1, 2010.



6. Compatriots look like a Pakistani trying to get over the rope across the river in Chakdara.



7. Forest fire near Vigo, Switzerland, April 26. Nine helicopters and 300 people were fighting a forest fire near the town of the south affected by the drought Switzerland. Several Swiss cantons banned campfires in or near the forest because of the strong over the last 150 years of drought.



8. Trucks in snow on the highway I-70 near Boonville, Missouri, February 1. The strongest storm in the past few years in Missouri began its journey across the state, bringing rain, wind and cold dangerous.



9. snow-covered truck, stuck and abandoned on the highway Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on February 2. Snowstorm unprecedented proportions swept the usually lean on the snow of Chicago, leaving hundreds of drivers stuck in traffic for 12 hours, and the children received the first snowy days.



10. This still image from the video seen an explosion in the night sky - a US military blow of 3300-meter hole in the dam Berds Point in Mississippi on 2 May. The explosion was flooded 52,611 hectares of land in the county of Mississippi, to protect a major city of Cairo.



11. The match between the teams «Quad Cities River Bandits» and «Peoria Chiefs» at the stadium «Modern Woodmen Park» in Davenport, Iowa. Stadium guards flood dam.



12. The dam protects the house in the flood waters of the river Yazoo May 18 near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Over the banks of the Mississippi River increases Yazoo River and heavy rains only exacerbate the situation.



13. The operator MCC Kevin Uinsell inspects the runway at the airport in London on the 2nd of December.



14. smog shrouded London on April 22. The British government has warned of dangerous levels of air pollution. The combination of heat and drought, says that the level of ozone and dirty particle increase.



15. Installation of new power lines in Pratt City, Alabama, May 3, where he was a strong tornado.



16. The man had saved a girl who was under the rubble of the house with his mother, after a tornado in Joplin, Missouri. As a result of the tornado raging from 255 to 28 April, 300 people were killed in the south and mid-west of the country. In total this year because of rampant disaster killed some 500 people.



17. Chinese worker in Huangpu May 10 produces special metrological shells to bring rain. As a result of the prolonged drought for several months about a million people were left without adequate access to water and electricity, the water level in the reservoirs in 1400 fell below the operational level.



18. A fisherman in a partially dried up river, crowded geese in Wuhan on 25 May. Worst drought in 50 years hit the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and damaged 9, 89 million people in the four central provinces.



19. Heartbroken relative during a mass funeral service for the victims of floods in Lin County June 11. The floods after heavy rains in the southern and central parts of China killed 52 people and about 100 thousand were left without homes.



20. Chinese saving things from the house, the victim in a flood in Laibine on 16 June. The floods and landslides have been evacuated more than 55 thousand people, and the death toll has exceeded one hundred



21. A young man goes through a flooded street in Yotoko, Colombia, April 22. Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides throughout Colombia. As a result of rainfall, with breaks lasting for 12 months, killing 408 people and injuring 487, 75 missing, and 2, 8 million one way or another affected by the disaster.



22. Colombian collects things in a flooded house in Cali on April 22.



23. Men with horses in a flooded area of ​​San Benito, Colombia, May 20.



24. Villagers Nakano on the site of a large gathering landslide in Thailand on 1 April. As a result of severe flooding in the southern part of Thailand killed 25 people, and thousands more were evacuated.



25. Taets network spreads hoping to catch fish in the flood waters in the district Phunpin, Province of Surat.



26. The farmer on a tractor on a flooded road between Malmo and Trellebrgom in southern Sweden on January 17 after the flood.



27. Employees of the University of Iowa were being taken to lift the snow got into the ventilation system of the building Biomedical Research Laboratory February 2.



28. longhorn bull in a pasture near the burned-out Graforda, Texas, on April 24th.



29. Wendy Lehman runs for cover from Midtown Beach in Palm Beach, Florida.



30. The truck stopped because of strong snowstorm in Government Camp, Oregon, April 6.



31. Egyptian trader with ice cream cart during a severe dust storm enveloped Kuwait on April 13. Schools, banks and some companies have closed early because of the high content of dust in the air, and the representatives of Kuwait International Airport reported that the visibility was reduced to 300 meters.



32. A young man with a cart after hail in Mexico City on April 16.



33. A man warms himself by the fire in a snowstorm in Ciudad Juarez on February 2. Snow and frost - a rarity in the area.



34. The farmer with a bucket of water to extinguish the fire is on a farm on the outskirts of Havana on April 20. Lack of rain has led to a drop in water levels in reservoirs across the country, which in turn has led to reductions in the drinking water supply in residential areas and increased risk of forest fires.



35. Residents affected by the drought are transported on camel carts in Mogadishu on April 22.



36. The snow-covered trees after an unusually cold winter in Europe, close to Schierke, Germany, May 3.



37. Workers install a canvas awning on the glacier, the largest mountain in Germany Zugspitze May 10th. Ice on the glacier melt not give from May to September, the resort to the lifts were safe.



38. Residents are looking for the bodies of victims of the landslide in Kingkinge, Philippines, April 24th. 15 miners were rescued, but 21 people have not been found.



39. The reaction of the girls on the site of the landslide in Port-au-Prince on June 7. Heavy rains poured in Haiti for the seventh consecutive day, giving rise to floods and landslides.



40. Frogs move to dry land after a downpour in South Korea on 26 May.



41. Jim Pinter makes things out of the house during a forest fire in Elpayne, Arizona, June 2. Strong winds and high temperatures only exacerbate efforts to fight fire with fire.



42. The fire on houses in Sierra Vista, Arizona, June 16. The largest wildfire in state history has already destroyed thousands of hectares of forest.



43. The car was covered by a landslide in Daudet, India, June 9. Killed about four people, hundreds of cars on the road have been forgotten.



44. Rescuers body after a landslide in a shelter Gulu Langat, Malaysia, May 22.



45. People in an evacuation center in the territory of SC "Erlvill" in anticipation of the strongest hurricane in Cairns February 2. Hurricane rose to fifth category, its winds reach 300 km / h. This storm is considered to be the strongest in the history of Australia.



46. ​​Les and Deb Scott found a huge chunk of hail in Vivian, South Dakota, July 23, 2010.



47. The hurricane, which resulted in the castle went to a diameter of 20 cm, Viviane. South Dakota, July 23, 2010.
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