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Down to Earth: Rare deluge to hit parts of the Sahara • FRANCE 24 English

  • September 2, 2024



Down to Earth: Rare deluge to hit parts of the Sahara • FRANCE 24 English

One of the driest places on the planet is about to experience an exceptionally rare downpour. The Sahara desert is expected to see record amounts of rain in the next two weeks. And that could trigger flooding elsewhere in North Africa, as FRANCE 24’s Environement Editor Valerie Dekimpe explains.
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41 comments

  6. Exactly this specific phenomenon – a stronger West African monsoon, i.e. the tropical convergence zone moving further North bringing rain deeper into the Sahara – has been predicted by climate scientists as a consequence of global warming.

    Therefore, I am not surpised to see this, but I am surpised to see this already now.

    Scientific predictions come true one by one, and still a lot of ignorant people deny reality.

  8. Might this have to do with shifts in ocean currents? The last thing I saw with respect to the masses of sargassum washing up everywhere in the past few years, was a suspected upwelling of cold nutrient rich water off the coast of West Africa. I was wondering if this signaled a climatic shift.

  9. The problem really is that when the climate shifts it is likely to turn on a dime. Keep in mind that when the climate in Siberia froze, the mammoths didn't thaw out and rot the following season. Or at least some did, not all. If something similar happens here, some villages may discover that they are now living in the middle of a perennial river and will have to relocate. They are going to need some topographical maps to identify flood risk areas if the areas becomes wetter. We also need to know if the climate of the Arabian Peninsula is going to revert to a wetter phase.

    Isaiah 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. (KJV)

  10. If such rainfalls continue sporadically over the next years, the UN's Development Programme and other organizations should support the excavation of huge artificial lakes as some of the water would gather there. Planting trees around the lakes would support the boundaries of the lakes from erosion- and planting lotus flowers in the lake would ensure that the water does not evaporate quickly in the heat of the sun. In that way, these lakes would contribute to increased humidity in the Saharan region and could thus even cause plant life to spread beyond the lakes. A big "Yes" to a greener Sahara.

  15. The problem is crackerjacks don't see the perspective & have no clue to the context of which subjects they speak climate is past change we're in a climate disasters period where entire regions are being flooded out to the point of migration patterns for birds have changed & people are trying to escape from now newly created flooded zones

  18. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation MAY be undergoing a significant weakening. I actually intuited that a full year of weaker circulation would result in fewer hurricanes reaching the US mid-Atlantic, with more activity developing closer to the tropics in the Western Hemisphere. After Saudi Arabia experienced severe rainfall and mesocylonic activity last winter, I realized that unstable moist air would also end up pushing into higher latitudes.

    That’s the Desert Belt all across the planet, in the Northern Hemisphere.

    That sounds super cool on paper, but unfortunately, the Northern Hemisphere deserts are not adapted to absorb massive amounts of water.

    It’s possible that the weakening circulation is a normal cycle that we’re not aware of because we’ve only recently noted and described the AMOC.

  21. If NIGER gets flooded it will be an enviomental dissaster with YellowCake ore Spoil being piled up on the flat desert. The water aquifiers and desert will be contaminated with raw uranium ore. Radioactive dust will be blown over Europe in future years. All thanks to French mining concerns.

  23. media wait for bill gates to say if are this climate changes😂🤣 media are this days like parrots!!!! no investigations more from media what say public figures and if this is true!!! shame on you bad bad bad for us small people

  24. Above anything else, climate-change (driven by an energising atmosphere) amplifies weather extremes – that seasonal dry spell becomes a drought (fires, etc), seasonal rains come with storm and torrent. And this is just the beginning…

  25. Totally normal. Some plants have adapted to it and produce seeds that can remain dormant for centuries because it is part of the natural cycle of thie envrionment. It has been described in a book by Theodore Monod… Having some culture would be welcome.

  36. While in South east asian countries like Singapore, Philippines, Thailand etc. experiencing over 40 degrees celcius during summer. This is very alarming. There are something not normal in earth. 😢

  37. That's what happens when they seed the clouds and manipulate the weather. They do it in Saudi Arabia and look at the outcome. There messing with mother nature not knowing the consequences

  41. I guess the earth tilting 150 miles north at the equator isn’t newsworthy. Or the jet streams, solar flares and extreme weather conditions all over the world.

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