Climate Change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan

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From mid-June 2022, large areas of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, falling in several pulses, until late August.

By the end of August large parts of the country were submerged.

The flooding occurred as a direct consequence of the extreme monsoon rainfall throughout the summer 2022 season exacerbated by shorter spikes of very heavy rain particularly in August hitting the provinces Sindh and Balochistan.

Pakistan as a whole received 243% more rainfall than usual during this period, and stands as record wettest August since records began.