- Title: Extreme weather timeline from Jan-March 2022
- Date: 3rd April 2022
- Summary: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (FILE - FEBRUARY 4, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MACHINERY REMOVING MUD AND DEBRIS Ecuador's worst rains in nearly two decades overwhelmed a dam near the working-class neighbourhoods of La Gasca and La Comuna, sending mud and rocks down on residences and streets. QUITO, ECUADOR (FILE - FEBRUARY 1, 2022) (REUTERS) MUDSLIDE SURVIVOR, JORGE VERA, CHECKING HIS MUD-COVERED VEHICLE DESTROYED AND MUDDY VEHICLES QUITO, ECUADOR (FILE - FEBRUARY 1, 2022) (REUTERS) DRONE VIDEO OF LANDSLIDE AREA DOG WALKING WITH RESCUERS AMONG LANDSLIDE DAMAGE QUITO, ECUADOR (FILE - FEBRUARY 2, 2022) (REUTERS) SOLDIERS REMOVING DEBRIS VARIOUS OF VOLUNTEERS AND AUTHORITIES CLEANING MUD AND REMOVING DEBRIS AREA AFFECTED BY LANDSLIDE VOLUNTEERS CLEANING AREA The death toll from Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar jumped to 120 on February 11 from 92 reported earlier in the week, the state disaster relief agency said. Batsirai was Madagascar's second destructive storm in two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana killed 55 and displaced 130,000 in a different area of the country, further north. HAUTE MATSIATRA, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 6, 2022) (REUTERS) CAR DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED RIVER VARIOUS OF DAMAGED ROAD FROM LANDSLIDE VOHIPARARA, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 6, 2022) (REUTERS) AERIAL OF CARS STOPPED IN FRONT OF FLOODED ROAD (MUTE) MANANJARY, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 8, 2022) (REUTERS) AERIAL OF DAMAGED BUILDINGS AND BEACH AERIAL OF COLLAPSED HOMES A landslide on February 8 buried part of the La Esneda neighbourhood on the border of the cities of Dosquebradas and Pereira in Colombia, following heavy rains in the surrounding coffee-growing province. PEREIRA, COLOMBIA (FILE - FEBRUARY 8, 2022) (REUTERS) DRONE VIEW OF MOUNTAIN SHOWING LANDSLIDE DRONE VIEW OF PEREIRA RESCUERS DIGGING ON MOUNTAIN TO SEARCH FOR MISSING GENERAL VIEW OF RESCUE TEAMS GATHERING NEXT TO MOUNTAIN Four years of drought, the worst in decades, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the once fertile corner of southern Madagascar into a dust bowl. NEAR AMBOVOMBE, ANDROY REGION, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 15, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE VIDEO OF TRUCK DRIVING DOWN DIRT ROAD, TRUCKS STUCK IN SAND ON ROAD ANJOTY MAROLAVA, ANJEKY BEANATARA COMMUNE, ANDROY REGION, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 11, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LOCAL VILLAGER, TARIRA (LAST NAME NOT GIVEN), AND HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY, AVORAZA, WALKING TOWARDS THE VILLAGE FOR A CHECKUP WITH WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) VARIOUS OF AVORAZA HAVING HIS ARM MEASURED / MEASUREMENT TAPE SHOWING YELLOW READING TARIRA RECEIVING FOOD MIX SACHETS TARIRA, AVORAZA AND OTHER VILLAGERS WALKING BACK HOME (MUTE) DRONE VIDEO OF TARIRA, AVORAZA AND OTHER VILLAGERS WALKING TOWARDS FIELD CORN CROP GROWING IN THE FIELD VILLAGER RETRIEVING DRIED CORN CROP VILLAGER DISPLAYING DRIED CORN CROP AMBARO CENTRE, ANTANIMORA COMMUNE, ANDROY REGION, MADAGASCAR (FILE - FEBRUARY 12, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE VIDEO OF WFP FOOD DISTRIBUTION POINT TSIHOMBE, ANDROY REGION (FILE - FEBRUARY 13, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE VIDEO OF DRIED MANAMBOLO RIVER Downpours in the Brazilian city of Petropolis exceeded the average for the entire month of February on February 15 alone, causing mudslides that flooded streets, destroyed houses, washed away cars and buses, and left gashes hundreds of yards wide on the region's mountainsides. PETROPOLIS, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (FILE - FEBRUARY 16, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WRECKED BUSES IN THE RIVER CAR UNDER A TRUCK CAR IN THE RIVER PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL (FILE - FEBRUARY 16, 2022) (REUTERS) HOUSES DESTROYED BY MUD PEOPLE LOOKING AT DESTROYED HOMES RESCUERS LOOKING FOR SURVIVORS An Atlantic storm battered northwestern Europe on February 18 with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least nine people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London's O2 arena. PORTHLEVEN, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LARGE WAVES AND STRONG WINDS BY THE CHURCH ON THE COAST BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, FRANCE (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) WINDMILLS ON THE COAST WITH WAVES CRASHING WIMEREUX, FRANCE (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WAVES CRASHING IN THE PORT TOWN OF WIMEREUX WAVES CRASHING, PERSON TAKING PICTURES LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO THE O2 ARENA ROOF CAUSED BY STORM EUNICE BLANKENBERGE, BELGIUM (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) SAND FLYING AWAY AT THE BEACH PEOPLE LOOKING AT WAVES PEOPLE STANDING ON THE BEACH IN STRONG WINDS BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (FILE - FEBRUARY 18, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WOMAN TRYING TO CONTROL THE STROLLER AS IT'S BEING PUSHED BY THE WIND
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