CNN — Heavy rainfall in southwestern Japan has induced devastating flooding and mudslides which have left a minimum of six folks useless, 5 lacking and 19 injured, in accordance with the Hearth and Catastrophe Administration Company on Tuesday. 4 folks died in Japan’s Kyushu area and two folks within the Chugoku area. Japan’s Kyushu area has been experiencing heavy rainfall for the reason that starting of the month and Monday noticed record-breaking ranges, in accordance with the Japan Meteorological Company. Japan’s climate company issued heavy rain emergency warnings on Monday for the Fukuoka and Oita prefectures, on Kyushu, the nation’s third largest island. Since Friday, some elements of Fukuoka have had greater than 600 millimeters (23.6 inches) of rain, which is greater than the realm would normally count on for the entire of July, Reuters reported. “It’s raining like by no means earlier than,” the Japan Meteorological Company stated in an announcement on Monday, which known as for optimum vigilance from residents. The alert was later downgraded to a normal warning. Japan shouldn’t be the one nation at present grappling with intense rainfall. Northern India has been experiencing extreme rains which have induced lethal flash floods and landslides, killing a minimum of 22 folks. On Sunday, Delhi had its wettest day in additional than 4 many years, with 153 millimeters (6 inches) of rain falling. Within the US, intense rain and flash flooding left a minimum of one individual useless in southeastern New York. Greater than 4 million folks had been underneath flood alerts Tuesday throughout the Northeast – together with elements of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine. Whereas heavy rainfall occasions will all the time occur, scientists say that local weather change means they’re changing into extra extreme. “The growing depth of heavy rainfall occasions and related flooding, comparable to these we’re at present witnessing, is an anticipated consequence of a warming local weather as a result of our emissions of greenhouse gases,” stated Richard Allan, a professor in local weather science on the UK’s College of Studying. A hotter ambiance is ready to retailer extra water, resulting in extra intense rainfall when it falls. Because the planet warms, the expectation is that we’ll see “increasingly more intense, extra frequent, extra extreme rainfall occasions, main additionally to extra extreme flooding,” stated Stefan Uhlenbrook, director of hydrology, water and cryosphere on the World Meteorological Group. It’s not potential to say precisely when and the place excessive rainfall occasions will occur, Uhlenbrook instructed CNN. However what is obvious is that the vulnerability of societies will probably be completely different – with poorer international locations usually extra uncovered, he added. “International locations like Japan are extraordinarily alert, they usually’re additionally very properly ready in relation to flood protection measures,” Uhlenbrook stated. “So even when it occurs extra incessantly, they’ll most likely handle this significantly better than low-income international locations the place there aren’t any warnings in place, no flood protection constructions [and] no built-in flood administration plans.”