2010: The Year of the Earth

In 2010, filled with anomalous weather phenomenon, was considered the warmest and humid year, and in many different areas on the earth was dry and cold record in history. Look back at the most unusual weather phenomena of 2010 through photos posted on the Guardian.

1. 19 countries announced 2010 as the hottest year in history

A Pakistani man at Sukkur refugee camp is staying under a sun-blocking table 41 ^° C while waiting to be distributed on the occasion of the Eid festival on September 12, 2010. 19 countries on earth have made unofficial claims that 2010 was the record hot year in history.

2. Record snowstorm in the United States

A series of large snowstorms, often called " Snowmageddon ", crashed north of the United States, creating more than 0.6 meters of snow in two states of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Low-air movement of the troposphere) in the Arctic has the most extreme state in the last 145 years.

3. Arctic ice is at a record low

Arctic ice in 2010 dropped to a record low, September 2010 decreased by 60% compared to the average annual ice volume from 1979 to 2010.

4. Drought caused by El nino in the Philippines

A farmer was looking at the rice fields that were dried up because of the El Nino phenomenon that caused drought in the Palattao area, Naguilian, Isabela province in the Philippines. The drought in the Philippines destroyed crops and caused a sharp decline in the nation's water supply.

5. 70% of coral bleached in Indonesia

The submarine reefs are heavily impacted at the second level compared to the record in 2010; due to the world ocean sea water temperature in summer is record high. The picture above shows an bleached coral reef in the Indonesian Wakatobi Islands. Wakatobi Sea is a beautiful sea paradise and home to millions of plants and animals.

This sea helps support the lives of 100,000 people and contributes billions of dollars to the country's economy. Last year, the bleaching of corals due to the high temperature of the sea devastated most of the Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Up to 70% of the coral in Wakatobi, has been partially or completely bleached.

6. Drought in the Amazon basin

Aerial view of a drought region in the Amazon basin in November 2010 in Manaus, in Brazil. A severe drought caused the river level to drop sharply to the lowest level in history near the Negro's black settlement, a large tribe in the Amazon River. According to Brazilian geographic agencies, the Amazon river water level has dropped to only 13.63 meters, the lowest record ever.

7. 68 storms and sea storms in 2010

On average each year, there are about 92 hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, storms in the Western Pacific and tropical storms in the southern hemisphere. In 2010, there were only 68 hurricanes.

8. The team practices under the black clouds dancing

Hopskins football team in Minnesota, USA is starting to warm up the body under the cloud of dancing.

9. Mid-summer monsoon in China

In 2010, anomalous monsoon in the middle of the summer caused the average rainfall in northern China and Mongolia to be 30-80% lower than that of every year, and in central China it is 30-100% higher. Meanwhile, the western part of the country has twice as much rainfall as usual.

10. 2010 is the year with the highest humidity

A wading family in floodwaters in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province in Pakistan. 2010 was the record wet year in earth's history in many regions. The average rainfall in 2010 is about 13% higher than in 1956, the wet year record.

11. The region is hot and stuffy, the area is rainy and rainy in Russia

Two men were looking at a heavy smog of smoke coming from the peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, Russia. A fierce heat wave swept through Moscow in late June 2010 and continuously increased heat during July, while a narrow flow of air still "stuck" in the northern part of the country making the region It has cool air, even wet diapers and low pressure.

12. The most rainfall in Queensland, Australia

In 2010, Australia experienced the wettest spring (from September to November) in the past 111 years, some areas of coastal state Queensland have a rainfall of up to 1200mm. Queensland has an area equal to Germany and France combined, and three-quarters of this region suffers from natural disasters. Rainfall in Queensland and the whole of northeastern Australia in December is the largest in the country's history. 2010 was the most rainy year in Queensland history.

13. Large floods and landslides in Colombia

The rubble cars in the area have been landslided due to heavy rain in Gramalote, northeast of Colombia in December 2010.

14. Extensive rainstorms in the US

Flexible plastic tapes and tapes are being dried out of a household's house and flooded in the Cottonwood neighborhood in May 2010 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA. The storms caused 10 deaths and the Cumberland water level of this region to be the highest, over the past 70 years.