A storm is set to sweep into southern Israel on Election Day, bringing a risk of significant flash flooding and road disruptions. Moisture from a Red Sea trough, a low-pressure system that extends north from the Red Sea, will move into the south by Tuesday afternoon.Northern and central Israel have a good chance of localized rain under partly cloudy to cloudy skies, but no major disruptions are expected.Rain will start in the southern Negev and quickly spread across large parts of southern Israel, including the Negev Highlands, the Arava, and the Dead Sea area.
Heavy rain is expected at times, accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, wind gusts, and even hail.Flooding may lead to road closures in southern IsraelFlooding is possible in streams in the southern Negev, the Arava, the Judean Desert, and the Dead Sea area. The public has been warned to stay away from streambeds, as conditions could be life-threatening.Police warned of possible closures on roads to and from Eilat on Election Day because of significant rain expected in the Arava on Tuesday between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. In addition, all hiking sites between Beersheba and Eilat will be closed for the duration of the storm.Police said they would decide on road closures based on on-the-ground weather conditions and urged the public to prepare for possible traffic disruptions.
The Jerusalem Post reports a storm bringing heavy rain, hail and a risk of life-threatening flash floods to southern Israel on Election Day, with road and hiking site closures. The forecast detail is accurate and practical, but the article never says that warming makes heavy rainfall and flash flooding like this more frequent or more severe, so readers get the event as plain weather.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“a risk of significant flash flooding”
Why this matters
The words "a risk of significant flash flooding" open the article on an extreme rainfall threat. Nothing in the sentence, or anywhere in the article, links that threat to a warming climate.
The impression it gives
A reader believes this flash flood risk is ordinary seasonal weather with no wider cause behind it.
The context
Human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent and more intense. The article contains no word on climate or warming at any point.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.
Heavy rain is expected at times, with thunderstorms, hail and a risk of life-threatening flash floods in the south. Climate change, driven by burning fossil fuels, is making heavy rainfall like this more frequent and more intense.