Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Floods After Heavy Rain

We may complain that it has rained a lot lately in Sweden, but it is nothing compared to what happened in Kurume, a town on the southern Japanese island Kyushu. The recorded rainfall was 402.5 millimetres. This is much more than the 30 millimetres we noted in our rain gauge the other week. Floods have followed the rain and there has even been some deaths due to it. This is not even a record for Japan. While rain is usually good, there can be too much of it. I hope we do not get such heavy rains here. 

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