Friday, 13 February 2015

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:

No current tropical storms.

NewsBytes:

Epic Sandstorm Suffocates Middle East - For the third day in a row, the Middle East awoke to the wind whipping and sand flying. A massive dust belt is moving from the Sahara Desert all the way up to Turkey.

Peru - Heavy rains cause flooding in more than 100 homes in Lima’s eastern districts. Mudslides destroyed buildings in Lima on Monday after rivers burst their banks. Six houses collapsed and 96 were seriously damaged after strong rains caused flooding in the capital’s eastern Chaclacayo and Luriganco-Chosica districts. Earth covered a 2.5-mile (4-kilometre) tract of a main highway to the Andean country’s central regions for three hours, while areas lost power.

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