Palm trees are flooded in a lake attributable to heavy rainfall in the desert town of Merzouga, stop to Rachidia, southeastern Morocco on Oct. 2, 2024.
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A surreal notify from the sand dunes of southern Morocco.
This find is the final end result of heavy rains that fell in August and September.
Not decrease than 11 folks had been killed in September due to the floods.
Morocco’s Fashioned Directorate of Meteorological has analysed Nasa images and detected water in Lake Iriqui which lies in the eponymous nationwide parc. The lake had been dry for half of of a century.
“There’s even a lake that has been dry for 50 years, named Lake Iriqui, between the Zagora and Tata regions, the place the water has returned, as Nasa images maintain shown. So, the aged desert lakes will advance lend a hand to existence.”
Houssine Youabeb says it has been at the very least 30 years since this worthy rain has fallen in the span of three months. These changes hint at extra main disruptions notably altered weather forecasts.
“The water will evaporate into the air, so there might be extra moisture in the air. This extra moisture will therefore fall on certain regions and reason rainfall. There will even be a change in the sample of precipitation. We’ll now now not maintain this typically organised rainfall, nevertheless rather somewhat tough thunderstorms over certain regions.”
Morocco is now not typically suffering from rainfall from the Inter Tropical Front, which traditionally impacts the Malian and Mauritanian Sahara.
Morocco, the place agriculture is a needed sector, headed this 300 and sixty five days for its sixth consecutive 300 and sixty five days of drought due to a fall in rainfall.
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