Since Thursday (April 18), the southern province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall, with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region’s annual flooding season.
Reuters was able to locate the video from the surrounding building, river, vegetation and terrain that matched satellite and file images. A video from state media shows a corroborating scene. Reuters was not able to confirm when the footage was filmed.
Precipitation records for April have been broken in many parts of Guangdong, and north of Guangzhou has been half-submerged in flood-waters.
Weather events in China have become more intense and unpredictable because of global warming, scientists say, with record-breaking rainfall and drought assailing the world’s second-largest economy, often at the same time. – report from Reuters
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