JC

Chalk up another remarkable 2024 weather record this week. While our hurricanes and floods dominated the rest of the media, the UK Independent quietly ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Flooding hits Sahara Desert after extremely rare rainfall. Flooding. In the desert. Flooding. It may sound like a mushroom-inspired hallucination, but it’s true.

It wasn’t a hurricane, typhoon, or tornado. It was just two days of hard rain. Satellites showed water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous desert lakebed that has been bone dry for over 50 years. But this week, in only 48 hours, Lake Iriqui was refilled.

The most recent downpour followed a historically wet September. Intriguingly, all the new water promises to potentially change the arid climate permanently:

Saying they weren’t prepared for this kind of weather is an understatement. This week’s desert floods killed 20 people and created a regional state of emergency.

Scientists are baffled. Where is all this water coming from? Ahem, Hunga Tonga

…………..

Hunga Who ?

see kewl2’s post below to get up to speed