Weather tracker: monsoon rains cause deadly floods in Pakistan and India | Pakistan

The heavy monsoon rains continued to repel the Indian subcontinent over last week, bringing devastating floods and landslides and making hundreds of people in what has already been one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in recent years.

A humid air which rises inside the land of Bengal Bay and the Sea of ​​Omane was led to Pakistan and to the northwest of India at the end of last week by strong Winds of Mousson to the southwest. Combined with areas in low pressure development, this sparked a succession of torrential fires.

Last Friday, more than 300 people were killed after the clouds – episodes in which time precipitation exceeds 100 mm – hit the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan and India. In the Biner district, in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 150 mm was recorded in just one hour. The showers triggered sudden destructive floods which swept the valleys and the villages carrying rocks and debris.

More than 240 people have been killed in this only event, making it the most catastrophic episode of the season so far. Since the start of the monsoon at the end of May, the National Authority for the Management of Pakistan disasters estimates that nearly 750 people have died.

Further south, Mumbai has also endured extreme precipitation during the last week. Between August 15 and 19, some parts of the city recorded 837 mm of rain – comparable to the annual average for the south of England – leading to generalized and prolonged floods. At least 21 people were killed, including a man who was electrocuted after wading in flood waters containing a living thread.

Transport was seriously disrupted, with roads full of water, the train services have stopped leaving hundreds blocked on platforms and many canceled or diverted flights. With the Mithi river near the bursting of its banks, hundreds of residents of the low -proxy low districts were evacuated to higher land.

Elsewhere, the heat wave that has seized a large part of Europe for more than a week has finally broken, replaced by serious thunderstorms. On Wednesday and Thursday, around 500,000 thunderbolt were detected across the continent, most of them in the south of France, Italy and the Balkans.

Italy wore the weight of the storms, which were fed by a low pressure area moving from the unusual Mediterranean, allowing the unstable wet air to compete with the hot air mass that had been built during the heat wave. Storms showers sparked landslides, uprooted trees and blocked roads, and in Sicily, the rivers broke out their banks, sweeping away cars. A person remains missing.