Global disastrous climate events in 2005-2009

In August, 2005, global disastrous weather and climate events 1 and rare drought caused forest fires to ravage southwest Europe. Since the summer, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and central Greece have suffered extremely serious droughts, especially Portugal and Spain. In August, due to drought, Portugal, Spain and France were caught in a continuous large-scale forest fire. The hardest hit is Portugal, which has suffered serious forest fires for three consecutive years. By the end of August this year, the fire had devoured the forest 134,000 hectares, exceeding the burned area last year, resulting in13 deaths. 2. At the beginning of August, Typhoon Mai Sha hit the eastern part of China, and Typhoon Mai Sha 0509 affected the eastern part of China, showing the characteristics of long duration and wide influence. Mai Sha * * * caused 310.459 million people to be affected, and the direct economic loss due to the disaster was more than10.80 billion yuan. Mai Sha landed in Zhejiang on August 6th, with the maximum wind speed of 45 m/s near the center and the central air pressure of 950 hectopascals. Landed again in Dalian, Liaoning on August 9, and weakened into a tropical depression when landing. It is one of the typhoons that seriously affected China's eastern coastal areas and East China in recent 8 years, following the typhoon 19971. There was a serious flood in Iran. On August 10, northern Iran was hit by floods, which destroyed hundreds of houses, causing at least 18 deaths and 12 missing. 4. In the middle of the flood caused by heavy rain in northern Thailand, the continuous heavy rain in northern Thailand caused the worst flood in 40 years. At least 6 people were killed, 13 people were missing, 44 bridges were washed away, 18 roads were washed away, and nearly 20,000 mu of farmland was destroyed. 5. The rainstorm in Sierra Leone ended, and the rainstorm in southern Sierra Leone caused floods, which killed at least 20 people and affected tens of thousands of people. The flood also destroyed a large number of houses, roads and bridges. 6. High Temperature in Southeast Europe In early August, a rare high-temperature heat wave occurred in some countries in southeastern Europe, killing dozens of people. (101). In June 2006, floods hit Bangladesh; Severe floods in northeastern India; New Zealand was hit by a strong snowstorm; Floods and mudslides occurred in eastern Indonesia; The northeastern United States suffered the worst flood in decades; South China is often hit by heavy rain. (***2 pages)