In the past few years, various kinds of weather and climatic anomalies have become a regular feature of the news of all TV companies in the world. The Earth is a rather large planet and every day something burns on it or somewhere, or drowns someone, or some other misfortune occurs. And looking at this, even people far from climatology begin to vaguely guess that such a concept as the climate has gone into a rage and the situation is getting worse every year.
If in the next couple of years some global tectonic or nuclear catastrophe does not occur, which will generally bury the world under meters of ash, then in the textbooks of geography of the future it will be possible to safely delete such concepts as "temperate latitudes", "desert", "forest" and so on further, replacing them with some general concept such as the word CHAOS. And the events in the world of the last few days perfectly illustrate how it will all be.
India is a country where there have always been big problems with water resources, due to which, in particular, the military conflict with neighboring Pakistan has been going on for many years. However, on April 22, water spilled over India with some excess, in addition to which there was also hail. As a result, rice crops, mango and banana tree orchards were destroyed on huge areas, lime and papaya gardens were damaged. And forecasters promise an increase in precipitation in the coming days.
The next continent is Africa, where it has always been pretty hot. How warm and dry it was always there is illustrated by such a 19th century meme “people in cork helmets”. That is, the sun baked the head of the European colonists and wore special headdresses. There is no meme about "people in wading boots", but today in Africa you can only move in such shoes.
South Africa, April 21-24:
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Thus, South Africa is now experiencing an epic flood that has led to widespread landslides. As of today, 60 deaths have been reported and the flood continues:
Now let's look at what happened on the same days in Uganda, which is also kind of in Africa, but 3,000 - 4,000 kilometers from South Africa:
Thus, in Uganda, that is, right at the equator, hail passed, which was so large that it killed dozens of people who tried to hide from the rain under the palm trees.
However, Africa is a very large continent, so it is snowing in Lebanon now:
And in Saudi Arabia, dust storms began:
Meanwhile, Spain is grappling with a minor flood that hasn't been there since at least Phillip the Fair:
The only consolation for the Spaniards is that there is also a flood in Canada and the police have moved from cars to armored personnel carriers and motor boats:
Since there is also flooding in the US Midwest, neighboring Canada, everything can be attributed to flooding, an abundance of snow and all that. In that case, let's see what is happening in South America. And in South America, for example, in Colombia, everything is almost exactly the same as in South Africa - that is, rains and landslides:
Let's change continents again and see what is happening in Australia: maybe everything is fine with the weather there? Indeed, everything seems to be yes - the local winter begins there and the first snow falls:
That is, people seem to play snowballs and rejoice, which some do. But the problem is that this snow is the EARLEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE CONTINENT.
While Australians are worried about “what's next,” Vietnamese are quietly jealous as the temperature there was 43.4 ° C (110 ° F) on April 20. This is an absolute record for April since the invention of the thermometer, and now the Vietnamese are terrified of what will happen in the summer, when the real heat begins.
And in Russia, in the Far East, the heat has already begun and Transbaikalia is blazing with fire:
And in Britain, forests are also burning:
These are the surprises nature brings in less than a week. At the same time, we have cited only some facts, omitting Iran, Pakistan, Thailand, China and many other places where unimaginable things happened in the weather during April 20-25. Let's add to this the invasion of insects - ticks, locusts, some beetles and other things.
If something like this happened in the world in five days in 1970, even in 2000, all the world media would rattle about it incessantly. The UN would gather for an extraordinary meeting, and there the climatological speakers would take turns running out to knock their boots on the podium, and in the hall the audience would tear their hair and wring their hands. That is, the situation is abnormal - a real climatic chaos, which will end with no one knows what.
However, today, when all this is happening before our very eyes, the “academicians” turn their faces away from the events and pretend that nothing is happening and everything is within the normal range. This can be explained by their behavior only by the fact that the owners of the “academicians” are well aware of what is happening and, knowing how everything will end, they are simply waiting for the development of events. So we will also wait, because, judging by the density of natural anomalies, the denouement of what is happening with the planet will come in the very near future, and we will not see this yet.