as of east China's Zhejiang Province. Nearly 200,000 people were reportedly evacuated and more than 14,000 rescue workers are on standby, according to Zhejiang's provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters.

Extreme rainfall

There have been a series of extreme rainfall events in Asia in recent weeks.

Forty people were reported killed as torrential rain and flash floods hit the Republic of Korea on 14 July.

In northern India, roads and bridges collapsed and houses were swept away as rivers overflowed during heavy monsoonal rainfall and flooding which killed dozens of people. The mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh was badly hit, as were the regions of Punjab, Rajastan and Uttar Pradesh. New Delhi reportedly marked its wettest July day in 40 years, with 153 millimeters (6 inches) of rain falling in one day.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued heavy rain emergency warnings on Monday for the Fukuoka and Oita prefectures, on Kyushu, the country’s third largest island. A new daily rainfall record of 376.0 mm fell on 10 July at Minousan and 361.5 mm at Hikosan, both in the Kyushu region.

"As the planet warms, the expectation is that we will see more and more intense, more frequent, more severe rainfall events, leading also to more severe flooding,” said Dr Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director of hydrology, water and cryosphere at WMO.

Asia is particularly vulnerable to water-related hazards. According to WMO’s report on the State of the Climate in Asia 2022, there were 81 major natural hazard events in the region last year, of which 83% were flood and storm events.

These events led to over 5 000 fatalities, 90% of which were associated with flooding. Overall, natural hazard events directly impacted more than 50 million people and resulted in over US$ 36 billion in damages.
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