00:02Residents in Tunis woke up to a lake that had seemingly formed overnight on streets and squares in the city.
00:10Torrential rains battered the Tunisian capital on Thursday, disrupting traffic and leading to university and school classes, getting suspended temporarily.
00:20The rain came after a summer marked by extreme heat waves across Tunisia and the wider region.
00:28The sudden downpours, far above the monthly average, sparked fears of flooding.
00:35Tunisia had just lived through deadly floods at the beginning of the year.
00:39They were caused by the worst rainfall in 70 years and led to at least five confirmed deaths.
00:46The episode in January was the latest in a growing series of such events, with deadly floods also striking in
00:532018.
00:56Most often, extreme rainfall and floods take place during autumn months, like September and October, or in the winter.
01:04Climate change has been shown to make extreme weather events more intense and also increase their frequency.
01:12This is true for both floods and also droughts and wildfires, which Tunisia has also been battling for the past
01:20few summers.
01:24anoiscism ofines
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