Some very heavy rains that were scary. Specifically 2.
One I was in a car with my family and we had to stop because the rain was destroying billboards and carrying them with the wind, and cutting down trees, so it was dangerous to continue.
The second one I was at home and the rain was so heavy that the windows were shaking and the bathroom window actually exploded.
Two years ago we had an immense amount of rain in my region, which led to awful floods in my hometown. I have friends who had to be rescued in boats from their second floors.
Well during a huracane the river flooded part of town lots of people in rooftops we lost power for 4 days and water for a week those were some wicked rain and winds
I think around 2004-05, one of the Caribbean storms/hurricanes passed within a certain distance from Venezuela. I was in Margarita Island at the time, and I remember chunks of hail landing on our balcony.
May 27th, 2010. Not only did we experience one of the deadliest tropical storms in our history, but at the same time, we were also hit by the eruption of the Pacaya volcano, which caused a black sand rain and buried the streets of the capital in volcanic mud.
In southern Bolivia, in the Chaco region, one summer it was so hot that the wind chill in the shade was 41°C and in the sun it was almost 45°C, so you couldn’t even walk down the street without burning with heat. It was so unbearable that not even the breeze provided any relief; every time the wind blew, it felt like I’d opened an oven door because it was so hot. I had to put my cell phone in the refrigerator because it got so hot I thought it would explode at any moment.
At dusk, black clouds suddenly appeared from the south, and a cold, hurricane-force wind blew, sweeping away trees and the roofs of houses. It was one of the most monstrous and terrifying storms I’ve ever seen.
When I was a child, my family took a trip to a tourist city in January, which is a rainy month in Brazil. We stayed in a hotel in the central region. One day, I looked out the window when it was raining and saw a flood starting. My parents didn’t agree at first, because I kept seeing things about extreme weather on the Internet (for some reason lol). Soon the power went out and they saw the entire street flooded. With no light, the elevator stopped and we had to take the stairs. My father went to try to rescue the car, which was in an underground parking lot at the hotel, but there was no more time, as everything was already flooded. We slept at the hotel and, in the early hours of the morning, when the water receded, we went to another hotel owned by the same owner in the rural area. The next day, they had to call in pumps to empty the city’s underground parking lots, and several people lost their cars. The entire city center was full of mud and several stores lost their products. Apparently, it was the worst or one of the worst floods in the city. To this day, my mother doesn’t like traveling in January. We couldn’t do it either, because it’s too expensive.
Last year’s Spring. Very hot. VERY dry and smoke everywhere. The sun was nothing but a small foggy disk in the sky. I felt like we were on Interstellar or something. I’m 30 and I had never seen something like that.
On the extreme opposite, massive storms flooded 60% of Rio Grande do Sul one year ago, killing 184 people and directly affecting another 2.4 million. Porto Alegre Airport was flooded. The destruction is still visible in some towns and the damage cost is colossal.
In the rainy mountains, we once had rain so intense and long that the large flat area north of the city got turned into a smelly swamp. It stunk up the whole city.
In my current city, rain can also cause slides and destroy houses close to the river. Why did they build there? Well, they’re poor.
Besides the mind-numbing cold, it’s something no city in this specific country is prepared for. Thermoelectric plants freeze and stopped causing electricity blackouts, water pipes in almost every home froze, the cooper ones (from all old homes) punctured when frozen and everybody was having water leakages, plumbers and plumbing materials were in short supply.
Some cars were severely damaged in the engine, some drifted in the thin ice layer on the pavement, some water fountains froze.
There was some sort of social accord where most of us didn’t shower for about 5 days, and nobody argue or said anything.
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In August 2005 there was a very severe storm in the capital city. Trees were tear down in almost every street.
We had some windows in our roof and those were shattered.
Luckily no one was hurt in the house.
Some very heavy rains that were scary. Specifically 2.
One I was in a car with my family and we had to stop because the rain was destroying billboards and carrying them with the wind, and cutting down trees, so it was dangerous to continue.
The second one I was at home and the rain was so heavy that the windows were shaking and the bathroom window actually exploded.
100kmh wind with heil the size of golf balls in 2008
A neighbouring city did went through an EF4 tornado but I didn’t experience it.
35 degrees in Chinandega🥵🥵🥵🥵
50C termic sensation during day with 32C at night
Two years ago we had an immense amount of rain in my region, which led to awful floods in my hometown. I have friends who had to be rescued in boats from their second floors.
Well during a huracane the river flooded part of town lots of people in rooftops we lost power for 4 days and water for a week those were some wicked rain and winds
I think around 2004-05, one of the Caribbean storms/hurricanes passed within a certain distance from Venezuela. I was in Margarita Island at the time, and I remember chunks of hail landing on our balcony.
Alex hurricane.
It was scary and the city collapsed.
And we are hundred of km from the sea.
May 27th, 2010. Not only did we experience one of the deadliest tropical storms in our history, but at the same time, we were also hit by the eruption of the Pacaya volcano, which caused a black sand rain and buried the streets of the capital in volcanic mud.
In southern Bolivia, in the Chaco region, one summer it was so hot that the wind chill in the shade was 41°C and in the sun it was almost 45°C, so you couldn’t even walk down the street without burning with heat. It was so unbearable that not even the breeze provided any relief; every time the wind blew, it felt like I’d opened an oven door because it was so hot. I had to put my cell phone in the refrigerator because it got so hot I thought it would explode at any moment.
At dusk, black clouds suddenly appeared from the south, and a cold, hurricane-force wind blew, sweeping away trees and the roofs of houses. It was one of the most monstrous and terrifying storms I’ve ever seen.
When I was a child, my family took a trip to a tourist city in January, which is a rainy month in Brazil. We stayed in a hotel in the central region. One day, I looked out the window when it was raining and saw a flood starting. My parents didn’t agree at first, because I kept seeing things about extreme weather on the Internet (for some reason lol). Soon the power went out and they saw the entire street flooded. With no light, the elevator stopped and we had to take the stairs. My father went to try to rescue the car, which was in an underground parking lot at the hotel, but there was no more time, as everything was already flooded. We slept at the hotel and, in the early hours of the morning, when the water receded, we went to another hotel owned by the same owner in the rural area. The next day, they had to call in pumps to empty the city’s underground parking lots, and several people lost their cars. The entire city center was full of mud and several stores lost their products. Apparently, it was the worst or one of the worst floods in the city. To this day, my mother doesn’t like traveling in January. We couldn’t do it either, because it’s too expensive.
9 degrees celsius at night during winter 😅 and thermal sensation of like 34 degrees celsius during the worst summer days
Tropical storm Noel in 2007, also Olga that same year
Too much rain, caused the local rivers to flood surrounding streets and took down several bridges. That was very recent.
It wasn’t as bad as in other places though.
I find the heat in the coast to be unbearable, especially with all the humidity, but that’s a more personal perception.
Last year’s Spring. Very hot. VERY dry and smoke everywhere. The sun was nothing but a small foggy disk in the sky. I felt like we were on Interstellar or something. I’m 30 and I had never seen something like that.
On the extreme opposite, massive storms flooded 60% of Rio Grande do Sul one year ago, killing 184 people and directly affecting another 2.4 million. Porto Alegre Airport was flooded. The destruction is still visible in some towns and the damage cost is colossal.
April 2nd, 2013. The rain flooded the entire city.
Any El Niño oscillations.
In the rainy mountains, we once had rain so intense and long that the large flat area north of the city got turned into a smelly swamp. It stunk up the whole city.
In my current city, rain can also cause slides and destroy houses close to the river. Why did they build there? Well, they’re poor.
-15°C on Feb 4th 2011 on my natal city.
Besides the mind-numbing cold, it’s something no city in this specific country is prepared for. Thermoelectric plants freeze and stopped causing electricity blackouts, water pipes in almost every home froze, the cooper ones (from all old homes) punctured when frozen and everybody was having water leakages, plumbers and plumbing materials were in short supply.
Some cars were severely damaged in the engine, some drifted in the thin ice layer on the pavement, some water fountains froze.
There was some sort of social accord where most of us didn’t shower for about 5 days, and nobody argue or said anything.