Excerpt from link below: "A surprising situation with natural disasters is taking shape in the regions of Siberia. So far, some areas of the Irkutsk region (Nizhneudinsky, Taishet, Tulunsky, Chunsky, Zima and Kuytunsky, 20 dead, 15 missing) and the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Kansky, Abansky and Boguchansky) are covered by flooding, in others because of lack precipitation blaze the woods. Because of the fires from July 3 to the special order in the Zhigalovsky district of the Irkutsk region introduced an emergency situation. Since July 2, due to adverse weather conditions and the deterioration of the forest fire situation in the forests, the same regime was introduced in the Ust-Ilimsk region ... in total, there are 47 wildfires in the area of more than 20 thousand hectares."
Read more here ... http://earth-chronicles.com/natural-cat ... ussia.html
Image shows the region in question, screenshot from today. From this site ... https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
Fire and flood side by side
Fire and flood side by side
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