LONDON: While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country's worst recorded floods, heavy rain is hitting southwestern China as the Texas city of Dallas recovers from a 10-inch deluge in a single day last month. Each of these rain-fuelled disasters followed a heatwave, suggesting the regions have been s
Commentary: From Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought - to what extent is climate change to blame for extreme weather?
Hit over the summer by its worst heatwave in six decades, China's drought-stricken Yangtze River Basin is struggling with both power and water shortages. Desperate for rain, some provinces within the basin have begun"seeding" clouds, sending planes into the sky to release the chemical silver iodide to cause the clouds to break.
Weather events across the northern hemisphere can also be connected by the polar jet stream, a fast-flowing air current that moves weather systems from one part of the world to another.
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