Volunteers carry dogs that have been evacuated from a flooded area in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil May 10, 2024.Even as the death toll from unprecedented flooding crossed 100 people, conditions are expected to take a turn for the worse in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul as rain continued to fall Friday -- with more expected through the weekend., while hundreds of neighborhoods have been devastated and destroyed in the weeklong flooding.
An army tank is used in the rescue works in a flooded area in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil May 10, 2024."We cannot say the worst is over," the governor added.Volunteers carry dogs that have been evacuated from a flooded area in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil May 10, 2024.In the state’s capital city, Porto Alegre, the river Guaiba remained at a record 16 feet high on Thursday.
Porto Alegre received a little over 10 inches of rainfall in just three days earlier this month, according to INMET, more than two months worth of rain for an average April or May. More intense extreme rainfall events increase the frequency and scale of flash flooding as the influx of water is more than the infrastructure was built to handle.In April, Earth experienced its 11th straight warmest month on record -- a preview of the brutal temperatures forecast for the summer, according to a monthly
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