April 2008
Natural
disasters in November 2005
The
information summarized has been culled from international press reports
and is indicative only. For official information, including
final statistics, readers are advised to contact the
National Meteorological Service of the country in question.
Tropical
cyclones
Typhoon
Kai-Tak
Viet
Nam
At least eight people were
drowned in central Viet Nam as Kai-Tak moved parallel to the coast, dropping heavy
rains on a region where bad weather had earlier killed 30
people.
Tropical
Depression/Storm/Hurricane Delta
Belize, Honduras, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, USA
Belize
The bad weather caused a plane crash that killed the pilot
and two passengers.
Honduras
At least 11 people killed
and 13 others missing in flooding and mudslides.
Spain
(Canary Islands)
Hurricane Delta killed at
least seven people and caused havoc. More than 200 000
people were left without power.
Trinidad
and Tobago
A mudslide killed
two people and destroyed several homes.
Floods/lightning/heavy
rain
Italy,
Malaysia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, United Republic of
Tanzania
Italy
Torrential rain and lower-than-normal temperatures caused
rivers and streams in central Italy to break their banks in
some rural areas.
Malaysia
Floods caused by heavy rains in north-eastern states of
Malaysia killed at least three people and forced more than
one thousand residents to flee.
Nigeria
Heavy rain and flooding delayed for several days the
excavation of an airliner that crashed in Lasa Ifo, Ogun
state with 117 passengers on board.
Sri
Lanka
Floods triggered by heavy rains in Sri Lanka affected some
40 000 people, including many living in makeshift shelters.
United
Republic of Tanzania
Several houses and crops were submerged after heavy rains on
the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Drought
China,
Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
China
Water shortages struck several cities in southern province
of Guangdong due to months of drought. Farmlands were dried
up, rivers and reservoirs made easy way for salt water to
wash upstream contaminating fresh water supplies.
Mozambique
Mozambique experienced four consecutive drought in a year
that caused widespread hunger for over one million people.
South
Africa
Eight of South Africa’s nine provinces were badly affected
by drought, especially northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal.
Zimbabwe
Water
shortage severely affected the country’s national parks, a prime tourist
attraction, causing the death of many animals.
Snow
Pakistan,
United Kingdom
Pakistan
Pakistan’s earthquake zone suffered from harsh winter
weather as rain and snow brought relief operations to a
halt. Up to 20 cm of snow fell in some high-altitude areas
and up to 32 mm of rain drenched some lower areas
United
Kingdom
About 400 cars were abandoned in the west of England after 8
cm of snow fell in three hours.
Tornadoes
USA
A series of thunderstorms moved through the mid-west from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes spawning 35 tornadoes
in five states(Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and
Tennessee), destroying houses and killing at least 23
people.
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