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(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...
The Global Flood Monitoring System, "GFMS", a computer tool which maps flood conditions worldwide, is available online. [67] Users anywhere in the world can use GFMS to determine when floods may occur in their area. GFMS uses precipitation data from NASA's Earth observing satellites and the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite, "GPM".
The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."
Changes in the steepness of the stream gradient, the amount of sediment contained in the river, and the total amount of water flowing through the system, all influence how a river behaves. There is a delicate equilibrium that controls a river system, which, when disturbed, causes flooding and incising events to occur and produce terracing. [3] [4]
Flooding can strike in seconds or days in various forms, each with its own life-threatening potential. However, all types of flooding should be taken seriously. "Sometimes people are not taking ...
It Could Happen Tomorrow continued running on TWC until April 2010, when The Weather Channel began airing many other new weather shows; it was replaced by Storm Stories and Full Force Nature. On March 12, 2011, It Could Happen Tomorrow was brought back to the schedule. As of July 2013, two episodes aired Fridays at 4–5 pm, but as of October ...
The Missoula megafloods carved deep channels and towering cliffs across the landscape, and are among the largest known floods in Earth’s history. Largest floods in Earth’s history ‘were ...
The 2017 California floods were a series of floods that affected parts of California in the first half of 2017. Northern California saw its wettest winter in almost a century, breaking the previous record set in the winter of 1982–1983. Flooding related to the same storm systems also impacted parts of western Nevada and southern Oregon.