Flooding In Pakistan Satellite Records 100 Km Wide Inland Lake

Parts of the country are now underwater after what United Nations officials described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rains in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million from the June. The new images, captured on August 28 by NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rainfall and overflowing Indus River have flooded much of Sindh province in the South. In the center of the image, a large area in dark blue shows the Indus overflowing and flooding an area about 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, turning the once agricultural fields into a huge inland lake. It is a shocking transformation from the photo taken by the same satellite on the same date last year, which showed the river and its tributaries contained in small, narrow zones, underscoring the extent of the damage in one of the worst-hit areas. This year’s monsoon is already the country’s wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the season still has a month to go. In both Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall was 500% above average, engulfing entire villages and farmlands, toppling buildings and wiping out crops. While mostly dry weather is expected in the region over the next few days, experts say the water will take days to recede. Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman said on Sunday that parts of the country “look like a small ocean” and that “by the time this is over, we could well have a quarter or a third of Pakistan under water.”

“FLOOD OF APOCALYPTIC PROPORTIONS”

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he visited Sindh and saw firsthand how floods had displaced entire villages and towns. “There is hardly any dry land we can find. The scale of this tragedy … 33 million people, that’s more than the population of Sri Lanka or Australia,” he said. “And while we understand that the new reality of climate change means more extreme weather or monsoons, more extreme heat waves as we saw earlier this year, the scale of the current flooding is apocalyptic. We certainly hope a new climate is not a reality.” Maxar Technologies satellite images from other parts of the country show how entire villages and hundreds of plots of verdant land have been leveled by fast-moving floods. Images from Gudpur, a location in Punjab, show how floods have damaged houses and replaced the land with traces of bare Earth. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday to inspect the flood damage. The province has recorded most of the latest deaths after the exponential rise in water levels, the country’s National Disaster Management Authority said. Sharif said on Tuesday that the floods were the “worst in the history of Pakistan” and that international help was needed to deal with the scale of the disaster.

title: “Flooding In Pakistan Satellite Records 100 Km Wide Inland Lake Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-28” author: “Billie Miller”

Parts of the country are now underwater after what United Nations officials described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rains in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million from the June. The new images, captured on August 28 by NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rainfall and overflowing Indus River have flooded much of Sindh province in the South. In the center of the image, a large area in dark blue shows the Indus overflowing and flooding an area about 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, turning the once agricultural fields into a huge inland lake. It is a shocking transformation from the photo taken by the same satellite on the same date last year, which showed the river and its tributaries contained in small, narrow zones, underscoring the extent of the damage in one of the worst-hit areas. This year’s monsoon is already the country’s wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the season still has a month to go. In both Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall was 500% above average, engulfing entire villages and farmlands, toppling buildings and wiping out crops. While mostly dry weather is expected in the region over the next few days, experts say the water will take days to recede. Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman said on Sunday that parts of the country “look like a small ocean” and that “by the time this is over, we could well have a quarter or a third of Pakistan under water.”

“FLOOD OF APOCALYPTIC PROPORTIONS”

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he visited Sindh and saw firsthand how floods had displaced entire villages and towns. “There is hardly any dry land we can find. The scale of this tragedy … 33 million people, that’s more than the population of Sri Lanka or Australia,” he said. “And while we understand that the new reality of climate change means more extreme weather or monsoons, more extreme heat waves as we saw earlier this year, the scale of the current flooding is apocalyptic. We certainly hope a new climate is not a reality.” Maxar Technologies satellite images from other parts of the country show how entire villages and hundreds of plots of verdant land have been leveled by fast-moving floods. Images from Gudpur, a location in Punjab, show how floods have damaged houses and replaced the land with traces of bare Earth. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday to inspect the flood damage. The province has recorded most of the latest deaths after the exponential rise in water levels, the country’s National Disaster Management Authority said. Sharif said on Tuesday that the floods were the “worst in the history of Pakistan” and that international help was needed to deal with the scale of the disaster.

title: “Flooding In Pakistan Satellite Records 100 Km Wide Inland Lake Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Virginia Montgomery”

Parts of the country are now underwater after what United Nations officials described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rains in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million from the June. The new images, captured on August 28 by NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rainfall and overflowing Indus River have flooded much of Sindh province in the South. In the center of the image, a large area in dark blue shows the Indus overflowing and flooding an area about 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, turning the once agricultural fields into a huge inland lake. It is a shocking transformation from the photo taken by the same satellite on the same date last year, which showed the river and its tributaries contained in small, narrow zones, underscoring the extent of the damage in one of the worst-hit areas. This year’s monsoon is already the country’s wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the season still has a month to go. In both Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall was 500% above average, engulfing entire villages and farmlands, toppling buildings and wiping out crops. While mostly dry weather is expected in the region over the next few days, experts say the water will take days to recede. Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman said on Sunday that parts of the country “look like a small ocean” and that “by the time this is over, we could well have a quarter or a third of Pakistan under water.”

“FLOOD OF APOCALYPTIC PROPORTIONS”

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he visited Sindh and saw firsthand how floods had displaced entire villages and towns. “There is hardly any dry land we can find. The scale of this tragedy … 33 million people, that’s more than the population of Sri Lanka or Australia,” he said. “And while we understand that the new reality of climate change means more extreme weather or monsoons, more extreme heat waves as we saw earlier this year, the scale of the current flooding is apocalyptic. We certainly hope a new climate is not a reality.” Maxar Technologies satellite images from other parts of the country show how entire villages and hundreds of plots of verdant land have been leveled by fast-moving floods. Images from Gudpur, a location in Punjab, show how floods have damaged houses and replaced the land with traces of bare Earth. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday to inspect the flood damage. The province has recorded most of the latest deaths after the exponential rise in water levels, the country’s National Disaster Management Authority said. Sharif said on Tuesday that the floods were the “worst in the history of Pakistan” and that international help was needed to deal with the scale of the disaster.

title: “Flooding In Pakistan Satellite Records 100 Km Wide Inland Lake Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Sybil Sanner”

Parts of the country are now underwater after what United Nations officials described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rains in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million from the June. The new images, captured on August 28 by NASA’s MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rainfall and overflowing Indus River have flooded much of Sindh province in the South. In the center of the image, a large area in dark blue shows the Indus overflowing and flooding an area about 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, turning the once agricultural fields into a huge inland lake. It is a shocking transformation from the photo taken by the same satellite on the same date last year, which showed the river and its tributaries contained in small, narrow zones, underscoring the extent of the damage in one of the worst-hit areas. This year’s monsoon is already the country’s wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the season still has a month to go. In both Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall was 500% above average, engulfing entire villages and farmlands, toppling buildings and wiping out crops. While mostly dry weather is expected in the region over the next few days, experts say the water will take days to recede. Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman said on Sunday that parts of the country “look like a small ocean” and that “by the time this is over, we could well have a quarter or a third of Pakistan under water.”

“FLOOD OF APOCALYPTIC PROPORTIONS”

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he visited Sindh and saw firsthand how floods had displaced entire villages and towns. “There is hardly any dry land we can find. The scale of this tragedy … 33 million people, that’s more than the population of Sri Lanka or Australia,” he said. “And while we understand that the new reality of climate change means more extreme weather or monsoons, more extreme heat waves as we saw earlier this year, the scale of the current flooding is apocalyptic. We certainly hope a new climate is not a reality.” Maxar Technologies satellite images from other parts of the country show how entire villages and hundreds of plots of verdant land have been leveled by fast-moving floods. Images from Gudpur, a location in Punjab, show how floods have damaged houses and replaced the land with traces of bare Earth. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday to inspect the flood damage. The province has recorded most of the latest deaths after the exponential rise in water levels, the country’s National Disaster Management Authority said. Sharif said on Tuesday that the floods were the “worst in the history of Pakistan” and that international help was needed to deal with the scale of the disaster.