Latest Scary Flood Targets: South Korea, Bangledesh, Omaha

Flash flooding in Korea this week.  

As many of you have noticed, I'm calling this the Summer of Big Floods and the trend continues worldwide.  

One of the scariest recent incidents happened this week in South Korea, where severe flash flooding killed at least five people.

An occupied bus was swept away, and reports are at least one person aboard the bus was killed and four are missing.

Watch the scary footage:



Here's more video of the South Korea flood. I'm not sure why people are carrying umbrellas as they wade through chest deep waters, but whatever:



Meanwhile, flooding in Bangledesh has left half a million people homeless. The flooding could get worse this week as high water pours into the capital city of Dhaka.

In the United States, local flash floods continued this week in the Desert Southwest, and the Central Plains are bracing for flooding rains today and tomorrow, and possibly beyond.

Forecasts call for up to three inches of rain in the next 24 hours in Nebraska, and six inches or more in parts of Iowa over the next few days.

I'm very reluctant to blame every single extreme weather event on global warming, but in general, the hotter the global atmosphere, the more likely local extreme rainstorms are.

So this plethora of big floods that seemingly crop up somewhere every day is consistent with a warming planet.  This flooding summer is just a little more evidence that the experts were right about climate change.