Event
China Floods June - July 2016
China
From mid-June through July, China endured a series of extreme precipitation events and floods, including the remnants of a Category 5 super typhoon—Typhoon Nepartak. All together, officials report on July 26 that 833 people died and 270 were missing due to the series of disasters. The floods are the second-deadliest weather-related event of 2016 and the fifth most expensive weather-disaster on record outside of the US. The heavy rainfall fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.
Sep 20, 2016 | Associated Press
Here's when summer's weather turned weird and violent
Sep 9, 2016 | Eco-Business
Counting the costs of floods in China
Aug 2, 2016 | Washington Post
The Forbidden City’s 600-year-old plumbing keeps it dry as the rest of China floods
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Jul 26, 2016 | Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Division/ NCC/ CMA
Map: Observed Precipitation Over China from July 1 - 25, 2016
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Jul 26, 2016 | Weather Underground / National Meteorological Center of CMA
Map: 30-Day Rainfall, June 15 - July 14, 2016
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Jul 26, 2016 | Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Division/ NCC/ CMA
Maps: China Total Observed June 2016 Precipitation and Anomaly Percentage
Jan 18, 2017 | Aon Benfield Analytics
2016 Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report
Mar 8, 2016 | Nature Climate Change
More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions
Jul 26, 2016 | Scientific Reports
Linkage Between Hourly Precipitation Events and Atmospheric Temperature Changes over China during the Warm Season
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