Nahal Hadera is flooded.
February 17, 2024/Nahal Hadera is flooded
The stormy and rainy weather that hit Israel over the weekend resulted in flooding in the northern streams and record amounts of precipitation in the northern rivers.
Near Shafaram, searches began for an 80-year-old man who left his house in the storm and disappeared.
The missing man, according to the police's suspicion, got out of his vehicle near the fields and the stream in "Ras Ali" when contact with him was lost.
As the search for him begins, those around him fear for his life due to the weather conditions.
A rescue team began trying to locate him in Nahal Tzipori in the area.
In the meantime, near Kibbutz Hogan, four passengers who were trapped in a vehicle that was swept away in the stream were rescued.
Also, two children were spotted walking around alone in the rain today.
A 4-year-old boy was found wandering barefoot alone on the Fig street in Harish.
The MDA team that was called to the scene gave him first aid and dried his clothes, and then evacuated him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, where his medical condition is described as mild. Three hours after being found, police officers located the father during a tour they conducted among the synagogues in the city, during which they talked to the worshipers and left Identifying details of the child.
About 4 hours later, a 3-year-old girl was found walking alone in the rain on Shlomo Ben Yosef Street in Bnei Brak. The MDA team that was called to the scene gave her initial treatment.
At the end, the girl was handed over to the police, who are still looking for her parents.
"We found her crying and her clothes wet," said MDA medic Moshe Elias.
Nahal Hadera is flooded.
February 17, 2024/Official website, Hadera Municipality
Flooding in Beit Keshet forest.
February 17, 2024/official website, Alon Raz
In the Hadera municipality, as mentioned, the streets of the Nahal Brigade and the Golani Brigade were blocked off, and they are preparing to block the nearby IDF Street as well, due to the abnormal amount of precipitation that was measured - about 80 mm on the weekend alone, which led to the flooding of the Hadera River and the nearby roads. An adult couple and a child were rescued from the floods in the city, all in a minor condition.
In Zichron Ya'akov it is reported that 850 mm of precipitation was measured this morning since the beginning of the year, almost double the precipitation compared to Edhedil.
In Dalit El Carmel, they were the first to cross the 1,000 mm rain mark. In Beit Keshet, 518 mm have been measured since the beginning of winter, with 50 of them falling over the weekend.
Dr. Noam Halfon, a researcher at the meteorological service, said that amounts fell in Sharon of 300 millimeters and more in February.
"These amounts are very rare in this region in the months of the second half of the season. In some of the Sharon stations, 550 millimeters or more fell, almost the seasonal amount there, just in the last five and a half weeks since January 10, which brought the stations there to amounts of 140% and more than the average for each season the rain".
The record of the rain in the significant rain episode of the last few days is Midrash Rupin with 181 millimeters of rain that fell there from Wednesday to Saturday at 12:00 noon.
This is according to data compiled by Shemat Zvik, responsible for the control of the automatic stations in the meteorological service.
According to the data, 180 millimeters fell in Kibbutz Ein Horesh, 149 mm in Lahav Haviva, 146 mm in Zichron Yaakov, 102 mm in Haifa University and 77 mm in Nazareth.
13 mm fell in Tel Aviv, 8 mm in Ashdod, and only 5 mm in Jerusalem.
Rescue efforts in Hadera.
February 17, 2023/Official website, Hadera Municipality
Tavor mountain.
February 17, 2023/Eli Ashkenazi
Flooding in Beit Keshet forest.
February 17, 2024/official website, Alon Raz
The rain is concentrated since the morning mainly in Sharon, northern Samaria and the Gilboa area.
Its strength is expected to weaken in the afternoon, but according to the forecast of the meteorological service, it will increase and accompany us tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and in a better distribution. The meteorological service warns of high and dangerous seas for bathing in the Mediterranean, mountain fogs, thunderstorms and lightning, and floods. Today it is expected to rain at times accompanied by isolated thunderstorms Mainly in the north of the country and the coastal plain. Localized rain is possible in the center of the country and the Negev. It snowed in Hermon. In the morning there is still a fear of local flooding in the northern and central coastal plain. Strong winds will blow. Temperatures are still lower than normal for the season.
And what about the forecast for the coming week? Tomorrow is expected to rain From time to time from the north to the Negev and in the area of the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea there is a fear of floods. The temperatures will be relatively low for the season.
These weather conditions are expected to continue on the second as well, when the rains will gradually weaken in the afternoon hours.
On Tuesday, the sky will clear a little, and in the north and center it is still possible to drizzle to light local rain.
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