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Torrential rain in Taiwan kills four over past week
Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing four people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas, authorities said Monday. Torrential rain has lashed swathes of the island since July 28, forcing several thousand people to seek shelter, damaging roads, and shuttering offices. Maolin, a mountainous district in southern Taiwan, recorded 2.8 metres (nine feet) of rain since July 28, Central Weather Administration (CWA) forecaster Li Ming-siang told AFP. That's more than Taiwan's annual rainfall of 2.1 metres last year, according to the agency's data. The unusually heavy downpours were caused by a low-pressure system and strong southwesterly winds, Li said. "The southwesterly winds have brought heavy moisture from the South China Sea to Taiwan," Li said. Li said southwesterly winds were normally brought by typhoons affecting the island and seasonal rain in May and June. This time it was caused by Typhoon Co-May pushing southwesterly winds further north as it swept past eastern Taiwan on its way to China, Li said, adding the rain was not linked to climate change. The average rainfall across the island last month was the highest for the month of July since 1939, the CWA said. The torrential rain follows Typhoon Danas, which hit Taiwan in early July. Two people were killed and hundreds injured as the storm dumped more than 500 millimetres (20 inches) of rain across the south over a weekend. "We rarely encounter a disaster of this scale," Premier Cho Jung-tai said during a visit to a flood-hit area in the southern Tainan City on Monday. "From Typhoon Danas up to now, we've faced nearly a month of continuous and heavy rainfall." The week of bad weather left four people dead, three missing, and 77 injured, a disaster official said. Nearly 6,000 people were forced to leave their homes. The state weather forecaster expects the rain to ease in the coming days. Taiwan is accustomed to frequent tropical storms from July to October. Scientists say human-driven climate change is causing more intense weather patterns that can make destructive floods more likely. joy/amj/fox
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California wildfire causing hazy skies in San Diego; extreme heat warning later this week
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Parts of eastern San Diego County and Imperial County will be under an extreme heat warning later this week, while wildfires burning in central California brought some cloud coverage to San Diego over the weekend. Satellite and radar showed smoke traveling south from the Gifford Fire burning in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties that mixed with coastal cirrus clouds moving east from the Pacific Ocean to create hazy conditions across San Diego County on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Much of San Diego County remained at a normal to moderate air quality Sunday, reports, meaning those unusually sensitive to air pollutants could be impacted and are urged to reduce time outdoors. Heat Risk/Extreme Heat Warning Portions of Southwest Arizona and Southeast and Southern California will be under an extreme heat warning from 10 a.m. Wednesday to 8 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service reports. The heat will peak Wednesday into Thursday, with temperatures expected to reach 106 to 118 degrees in those areas. The National Weather Service forecasts Ramona has a 65% chance temperatures could reach over 100 degrees on Thursday. When in an area under an extreme heat warning, the National Weather Service advises to limit time spent outdoors, drink plenty of water, wear lightweight and loose-fitting clothing and to keep an eye out for signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Public cooling centers are available in San Diego County for anyone needing a safe place to stay while extreme heat warnings are in place. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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In Southwest Michigan, erosion is taking away beaches, backyards more and more every year
In Southwest Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline, full- and part-time residents are losing more of their backyards every year — and the changing climate and weather patterns are making the problem worse. Those residents are now taking action to try to prevent the erosion. On average, Southwest Michigan loses more than a foot of shoreline every year. But one specific area lost 75 feet in four years. A steep drop, and some broken beach access stairs stuck in the sand, are signs of a beach that no one can access anymore. John Yellich, the retired former head of the Michigan Geological Survey, is behind the first research done on erosion in Southwest Michigan in almost a decade. He fought for the research and funding he fought because of the significant erosion issues tracked in the area. "What we wanted to do is to be able to study areas, and what was causing those changes," Yellich said. "Put a sand pile on the beach, and it's fine. Pour water on it with a cup, and all of a sudden, it disappears." Coastal erosion is behind about $500 million a year in property loss in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Residents, such as Victoria Turbov and John Barkley, have been witnessing the land loss firsthand. They started speaking up. "As a Navy pilot, I'm used to panic, but I panicked. So there were some days here where we lost several feet. We saw the boardwalk collapse into the lake. We saw part of our drain system collapse into the lake," said Barkley. "People bought homes there based on their ability to have lake access from their homes, and once the bluff started to erode, they lost that access." The research into erosion along Lake Michigan brought together Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan geologists and geography experts. The research focuses on Mount Pleasant in Allegan County, and Miami Park in South Haven, Michigan. Images from their published research dating back to 2017 document the land loss. "The [Army] Corps of Engineers would say that we could expect erosion at a rate of one foot per year, so we were expecting a creeping one foot," said Barkley. "But what we learned is it goes in spurts, so that over time it might be an average of one foot, but over the last three years — from maybe 2020 to 2022 or 2023 — we lost about 75 feet." Turbov has summered along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Southwest Michigan since she was two years old. She has had a front row seat to changes for more than 70 years. "This is very precious to us, because we don't want this bluff to collapse," she said. Now, thanks to the work proving erosion is worsening, Turbov's 100-year-old neighborhood is doing work to bolster itself. "It's a fight to keep the water off the cliff," she said. Turbov led the work in his own neighborhood about half a mile down the road. "It used to be a vertical drop, but once we sculpted it, then we were able to vegetate it with deep-rooted plantings," said Barkley. Planting those specific types of plants used in those deep-rooted plantings, implementing water management systems, making changes to their irrigation system, and reinforcing the beach with rocks are all solutions to an erosion problem with a connection to our changing climate. "It's gotten worse because of the climate, and we are just more aware. This was not on people's radars 20 years ago," said Turbov. "Now we're coming to see, as most people are, we need to protect this place and other places and, you know, our environment in general." As we track warming global temperatures, rising sea levels, and lake levels for the matter, experts say our coastlines and shorelines are paying the price. "But the whole bottom line is that, yes, these are dramatic changes, not slow," said Yellich. "Major rainfalls, major droughts, and sometimes, of course, when you get the drought and a lot of rain, it doesn't soak in, so it runs off." While the EPA has tracked the cost of the problem, local and national EPA offices confirmed they are not doing any work targeting erosion right now. And Yellich emphasized that when it comes to erosion, the problem is not going to go away. "It's just something that isn't going to change, and it's going to continue to happen," he said. But in Southwest Michigan, experts and residents say doing nothing is not an option — with all the beautiful landscapes that are eroding away already serving as a warning. "I'm saying that this is an example of what catastrophic things can happen if you don't do the right things," Yellich said. City and Township officials in the area that is the focus on this story didn't respond to requests related to this story.
