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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Scores killed in Chinese floods

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific:

At least 115 people have been killed in floods and storms as Typhoon Bilis churns across China's south-east, state media reports.

The Fujian, Hunan and Guangdong provinces have been the most severely affected by the tropical storm, Xinhua news agency said.

Typhoons in Pacific Ocean / Asian continent region are nothing new. Neither is the consequent flooding They have that every year, right?

Seasonal heavy rains and typhoons causes hundreds of deaths in China each year. But meteorologists have predicted this summer will be particularly bad, with warm Pacific currents causing more typhoons than usual.

Those meteorologists seem to be saying the same thing about a lot of regions this summer.

There year also brought the coldest winter throughout Europe: the coldest in a century in some places. And then when spring came, some countries in central/eastern Europe saw the worst flooding they had experienced in a century.

Thank goodness there is no climate change going on around the Earth. Otherwise, we might be tempted to cut back on our energy usage as the planet heated up.

Bottom line: this is not a good year to expect good things from the weather.

posted by John Collins @ 2:15 PM