October 25, 2020
The 2020 summer season monsoon season has actually provided historical quantities of rain to China. Since June, uncommonly strong, fixed weather condition systems have actually produced regular storms and heavy rains in significant river basins in main, southwestern, and northeastern China. By September, news outlets reported that the nation had actually experienced a minimum of 21 big scale floods in 2020—the most floods because 1996.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite caught these scenes of Songhua River in the Heilongjiang Province of northeast China on October 25, 2020 (above) and November 1, 2019 (listed below). These false-color images utilize infrared and noticeable light (bands 7-2-1) to much better differentiate water from land. Vegetation appears green, water appears dark blue, and bare land appears brown.
November 1, 2019
In September, Typhoon Maysak brought relentless rains to the Heilongjiang Province and flooded neighboring locations. The rains immersed structures in Harbin, the provincial capital, and triggered rivers to overflow. Water levels on the Songhau River, along with 14 other rivers, went beyond caution levels, and authorities suspended water take a trip on the Songhau. Flood waves from the Mudan River likewise broke a dam situated on the borders of Harbin.
The monsoon rains likewise brought significant flooding to the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins. The Three Gorges Dam, which covers the Yangtze River, experienced the greatest water levels because the dam started holding water. The flooding has actually damaged croplands, impacted countless individuals throughout the nation, and triggered numerous deaths.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, utilizing MODIS information from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.
