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May 10, 2024 · People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly flood s, are bracing for more disruption after heavy rainstorms pummeled the area on Friday and meteorologists warned of more to come...
3 days ago · Brazil’s south is one of the country’s rainiest regions. As the world gets warmer, the areas of high atmospheric pressure that occasionally form over the Atlantic coast of South America are ...
May 24, 2024 · The flying river has acted like a firehose, dropping five months of rainfall in just two weeks, further enhanced by a strong jet stream located in a disadvantageous position above the region. And, based on future projections of climate change, this situation will likely get worse as temperatures rise.
May 16, 2024 · While the southern part of the country is under water, a heatwave caused record-breaking temperatures in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. For scale, this is similar to all...
May 11, 2024 · Weather across South America is affected by the El Niño climate phenomenon, a naturally occurring event that periodically warms surface waters in the equatorial Pacific. In Brazil, El Niño has historically caused droughts in the north and intense rainfall in the south, and this year the effects have been particularly severe.
May 16, 2024 · Combined with unusually weak winds from Antarctica and a warming Atlantic Ocean, this is intensifying both floods and droughts in southern Brazil. The area’s last great flood was in 1941.
2 days ago · By combining weather observations with results from climate models, the scientists estimated that climate change had made the event in southern Brazil twice as likely and around 6% to 9% more intense.
