These days, many are following the situation that has developed in the Irkutsk region, where they overflowed the banks of the river - tributaries of the Angara by 10-14 m and flooded villages and small towns. Private buildings in the small town of Tulun have been partially washed away. Not without sacrifices - people at the last did not want to leave their homes.
As a rule, after such events, they begin to look for extreme and guilty ones, to consider possible reasons. Many opinions. From rains and the rapid melting of snows and glaciers in the mountains, to the fault of the management of the hydroelectric power station on the Angara, which maintain a high level of the reservoir and do not allow water from the tributaries to actively drain into the Angara.
I don't want to comment on the hysteria according to the latest version. It is a pity that many succumb to it.
Tulun city.
Received information from a colleague in Irkutsk who is related to the meteorological service:
Those. From this information, it can be assumed that large amounts of precipitation fell in the mountains and, as a result, the level of rivers flowing from the mountainous regions of the Sayan Mountains rose.
Now a critical situation is being created on the rivers and in the Krasnoyarsk Territory: the Kan River, the Biryusa River. To make it clear, I give a map where you can see where these rivers and rivers originate in the Irkutsk region: the Oka river, the Uda river, the Iya river - these are the Eastern Sayan mountains:
In my opinion, in order to predict such situations, it is necessary to increase the network of meteorological stations, especially mobile ones, in the mountains, from where floods may come. Now weather stations are located mainly in large cities:
If somewhere in the mountains a large volume of water fell locally, there were showers, and the meteorological services cannot see it. I think that's what happened this time. If the climate presents such surprises with tropical rainfall, even in the mountains, then you need to be prepared for this.
Author: sibved