Can a typhoon exert "remote control"?

reedak

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1. The following are striking similarities between the recent deadly floods in Western Europe and the central Chinese province of Henan:

(a) Both regions experienced record amounts of rainfall.

(i) In Western Europe:

“In some areas, we have not seen this much rainfall in 100 years,” Andreas Friedrich, a German weather service spokesman.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-european-floods-in-100-years-have-left-120-de-1847306704

(ii) In China's Henan:

Zhengzhou's weather station called it a "once in a thousand years" downpour. Henan's water resources department went a step further, claiming rain levels recorded at some stations could only be seen "once every 5,000 years."

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/23/china/china-flood-climate-change-mic-intl-hnk

(b) People in both regions were caught off-guard by rapidly rising waters:

(i) In Western Europe:

"I don't think anyone could have imagined something like this," he (resident George Larscheid) said. "No one was prepared." Merkel, Germany's leader, struggled to explain it. She told reporters she could, "almost say that the German language doesn't have words for the destruction."

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/shock-grief-death-toll-european-115640851.html

(ii) In China's Henan:

SHOCKING footage shows terrified passengers trapped inside an underground train as floodwaters rise to shoulder level in China.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three workers in a flooded tunnel under construction in a southern Chinese city, as search efforts for 11 others trapped since Tuesday continue.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3316963/commuters-trapped-trains-floodwaters-china/

2. Some Chinese meteorologists claimed that the typhoon "Yanhua", which is approaching South China's Fujian Province, exerted "remote control" over Henan. Water vapour is pushed from the sea to Henan following the path of the typhoon as well as air currents.

Claiming that a typhoon can exert "remote control" before reaching a region is analogous to claiming that a person on a railway track could be killed by the sound of an approaching distant train before he is hit by the train. The idea of a typhoon's "remote control" is as preposterous as the mumbo jumbo of a witch doctor. :)

As pointed out by Liu Junyan, climate and energy project leader for Greenpeace East Asia: "Without the impact of climate change, it is very difficult to imagine such extreme rainfall would occur in an inland city like Zhengzhou."

Furthermore, typhoon "Yanhua" has not exerted much impact on those regions (such as Taiwan and Hong Kong) that are nearer to its path.

Additional Reference:

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/arti...-have-heaviest-rainfall-60-years-global-times

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci...s-how-zhengzhous-once-thousand-years-rainfall

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/e...-flooding-25-killed-and-hundreds-of-thousands

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/15/europe/germany-deaths-severe-flooding-intl/index.html

https://in.news.yahoo.com/extreme-weather-government-incompetence-being-170952213.html
 
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