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Posted on August 6th, 2024

Apollo News Snippets – August 2024

Several people died in Greece in June after an early season heat wave hit the area. After China experienced deadly floods in April, more heavy rainstorms in June led to the loss of homes, roads, bridges and lives. More than 2 million people in Bangladesh were affected by heavy monsoon rainfall that led to flooding and landslides, causing the deaths of numerous people. Several people also died when Tropical Storm Alberto, the first storm of the Atlantic 2024 hurricane season, made landfall in northern Mexico. Heavy rainfall in El Salvador and neighboring countries caused flooding and landslides that led to widespread displacement and more than a dozen deaths. (Image Credit: NOAA Global Climate Report)
  • The NOAA Global Climate Report for June 2024 has been released by the National Centers for Environmental Information and reveals further proof that global Climate Change remains a concern. The June global surface temperature was the warmest June on record and the 48th consecutive June since 1977 where temperatures were above the 20th Century average. Record-warm June temperatures covered large parts of Africa, parts of southern Europe, Southeast Asia, and much of the northern two-thirds of South America. The record-warm June temperatures, which were a continuation of record warmth throughout the first half of the year in large parts of South America, contributed to early and expansive drying of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands. This led to a record start to the fire season, with more than 2,500 wildfires reported in the Pantanal in June, the most ever for the month since records began in 1998, and more than six times the number in the same month of 2020, which was the most active fire year on record for the Pantanal.
  • On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-1945), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” Our Google search of the month, “GIS and Hiroshima Day,” turned up different ways to learn more about what happened August 6th. The GIS Maps of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial offers four maps that show the memorial with the nearest river, city, topographic relief and satellite imagery. UNESCO provides data of all world heritage sites; ArcGIS provides data of administrative areas and coastal lines of Japan; CGIAR-CSI provides elevation data; and Bing provides satellite imagery as well. There’s also a GIS-based model studying urban heat island mitigation that focused on Hiroshima. There also have been several studies over the past 78 years focusing on the health effects of radiation conducted in Hiroshima, with the latest pulling from a variety of maps. There also are interactive maps that educate people about the Hiroshima explosion and how the height of the explosion and its effects are linked.

Brock Adam McCarty
Map Wizard
(720) 470-7988
brock@apollomapping.com

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