Recently, heavy rains have continued in many parts of Brazil, causing flooding.
From the evening of the 28th to the early morning of the 29th local time, heavy rainfall in Santa Catarina in southeastern Brazil caused flooding, resulting in a 17-year-old boy being swept away by floodwaters and unfortunately killed.
Heavy rains and flooding have killed dozens of people in the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and São Paulo.
The Rio de Janeiro State Fire Department previously said heavy rains had flooded streets, some metro lines and homes, and the water had also washed down trees and caused landslides.
Akari is one of the worst-hit neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, with heavy rains even flooding the basement of a hospital.
It is reported that in just 24 hours, the precipitation in some areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro has reached the precipitation of the whole month in January of previous years.
Screenshot of the Associated Press report.
In some coastal areas where floods do not occur, extreme weather has also had a significant negative impact.
It's summer in the Southern Hemisphere. However, since January this year, the southeast of Brazil has been hit by multiple rounds of cold air, not only frequent rainfall, but also temperatures are significantly lower than normal for the same period of the year, which has made many popular summer sightseeing and leisure beaches less lively.
The famous tourist beach in Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil, is rarely visited by tourists, and more than half of the roving trucks and shops on the beach have closed early.
Due to the continuous rain, the average maximum temperature in January this year was about 6 degrees Celsius below the normal level of previous years.
This has led to a sharp drop in the number of tourists not only from other places, but also by about a third from the local area.
Not only Brazil, but also many countries in South America have been hit by heavy rainfall in succession.
On January 29, local time, Bolivia** announced that since November last year, heavy rains and floods have occurred in many parts of the country, and the disaster has killed at least 22 people.
From November 2023 to January 2024, 9,625 families in 44 cities across the country have been affected,** and 131 tonnes of humanitarian aid has been provided, a deputy minister of civil defense said at a press conference.
The meteorological department expects the rainy season to last until around March.
Screenshot of the report of the Azerbaijani News Agency.
In recent years, extreme weather has occurred frequently in many parts of the world. Experts say this is closely linked to human-induced climate change, and countries should improve emergency early warning and risk management systems in a timely manner to avoid loss of people** and property.