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Thursday 5 December 2019

Rain, rain, rain...

Currently the tropical storm 06A (also known as Pawan) is slowly passing Socotra as shown below captured by the NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite:


The heavy rains are causing new floods again all over the island and roads are blocked by land slides. Following pictures are forwarded by Dr. Julian Jansen van Rensburg, currently on expedition on the island.


This vital water resources is currently just flowing into the sea... A proper meteorological network should be installed and maintained to really quantify the effects of these recently increasing cyclones hitting the island(s).