December 14, 2021
January 7, 2022
After months of extreme dry spell, a burst of rain is triggering issues.
For much of 2021, dry spell grasped southern Iran, parching crops, drying wells, and sustaining demonstrations over water. The very first week of 2022 brought the opposite issue– a series of powerful rain and snow storms overwhelmed rivers and let loose extensive flooding.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS) on NASA‘s Aqua satellite recorded images of flooding in southern Iran on January 7,2022 For contrast, the 2nd image reveals the very same location on December 14, 2021, prior to the storms struck. The images are false-color, utilizing a mix of noticeable and shortwave infrared light (bands 7-2-1) to make it simpler to compare land and water. Dry land appears brown; vegetated locations are green. Areas covered by water are dark blue.
January 7, 2022
News and social networks reports revealed harmful flood waters that rinsed bridges, swept away cars and trucks, overloaded houses, and swamped farmland. The floods have actually eliminated a minimum of 10 individuals and harmed numerous houses and lorries, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.
The current burst of rain will not always end Iran’s dry spell or water obstacles right away. While storms can renew wetness on the surface area, it takes a continual duration of damp weather condition to renew groundwater, which lots of people in this area count on for watering. Data gathered by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On ( GRACE-FO) satellites reveal that reserves of shallow groundwater in the area’s aquifers, though enhanced, were still low in some parts of southern Iran on January 10, 2021, according to GRACE-FO information released by the University of Nebraska.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, utilizing MODIS information from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview
