The worst floods in history that the region can remember.
Siberia is facing the worst climate emergency let his story remember. A prolonged and anomalous heat wave early is affecting the whole region from the second week of April with temperatures of 15/20°C above normal ended up many degrees above zero. The sudden heating caused a rapid dissolution from the snow accumulated throughout the winter period. Melt water it flowed into the rivers of the region which literally exploded flooding dozens of countriesie of the city and forcing the authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of people. The emergency mainly concerns the area of Urals where the Ural River rose almost two meters above its maximum danger level. Floods also in Kazakhstan which is crossed by many rivers coming from Siberia. The comparison with the same period last year is impressive! Normally the thaw in the Siberian region it occurs very gradually from the end of April and continues throughout the month of May. This is the situation:
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