More than 100 people are missing after flooding from a village in Uttarakhand.
More than 100 people are missing after flash floods from Dharma village in North Indian Uttarakhand state and at least four people have died.
Local authorities said that the army and disaster response teams were working to save people who were trapped in the area.
“A grand mud in the Khuri Gad area near Harcel pushed into the village of Dharli and made the settlement and suddenly created a flow of water,” the Indian Army’s central command said in a post on X.
The flash flood in the Uttarakashi in Dharmarali, known as the “Cloudbest”, which extended the Kherganga River around 1:30 pm on Tuesday at around 1:30 pm.
India’s Meteorological Department (IMD) Warning that the heavy rains will continue for the next few days.
What is a cloudbest?
Claudberst is an intense rainfall that distributes a large amount of rainfall in the past. It is often accompanied by thunderstorms and hail and flash floods.
At any time, the clouds blanket about 70 percent of the earth’s surface. Clouds are often associated with Comumulinbus clouds, which contain large amounts of water.
The IMD said In the last 3 HOURS hours, the rainfall was recorded in North -West India (.3..3 inches) or more, including Uttarakhand, with flash floods – according to IMD, more than 3 cm (9.9 inch) rainfall must be classified as clouds.
Claudbersts occur in a small geographical region of 20 to 30 square kilometers (7.7 to 11.6 square miles).
This is caused by climate change?
Uttarakhand, which has a large number of mountainous and often unstable regions, is at risk of monsoon -related floods. Between the villages of the Himalayas and Gangotri in the Himalayas, the village of Dharali is located.
Considering the fragility of the Himalayan region, Uttarakhand is especially unsafe for climate change. In particular, it has been exposed to excessive rainfall, clouds, flood events and during the very cold weather period (cold waves). Reduced the International Disaster Risk??
The study has shown that due to the inability to adapt to climate-related and climate change, and ecosystem in these areas are more sensitive to such changes, districts of the upper regions have been exposed to this effect.
Experts say that global warming will increase the temperature of the mountain faster than the global average.
Historically affected catastrophic floods will be more common because rising temperatures cause the melt of glaciers, such as glaciers near Gangotri, street.
According to the United Nations Environmental Program, the rising temperature in the Himalayas will eventually reduce the size of the glacier, resulting in the long -term availability of water for agriculture, people and energy systems. It will also exploit more solar energy – accelerate the effect of global warming – as the glacier’s melting area will be replaced by water or land, and reducing the amount of reflection by the currently existing glaciers.
