Sunday, March 21, 2021

Notes From All Over -- Sunday Night Edition -- March 21, 2021

Global warming.

Mobility trends. Most of Europe returns to modified lockdowns, but Italy's is most severe. From an Apple app; corroborates the headline story:

Now, floods. All we've heard about for the past several years from this area: unrelenting drought. Now it's floods, but we are still able to predict the two-degree rise global temperature one hundred years from now. 

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people on Monday from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years with another day of drenching rain expected.

Unrelenting rains over the past three days swelled rivers in Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales (NSW), causing widespread damage and triggering calls for mass evacuations.

“Flooding is likely to be higher than any floods since Nov 1961,” NSW emergency services said in a tweet late Sunday. Authorities expect the wild weather to continue until Wednesday.

 

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