According to the newspaper O Tempo, fifty people died in Minas Gerais due to the heavy rains that hit the state last week. Two other people are still missing in the cities of Conselheiro Lafaiete, in the central region of the state, and Luisburgo, in the region of Zona da Mata. According to authorities, the death toll could rise in the coming hours. In all, 28,043 people are displaced in Minas Gerais. Of these, about four thousand are homeless in the region due to heavy rains.
For the general coordinator of Research and Development of the National Center for Monitoring and Natural Disaster Alerts (Cemaden), the meteorologist and climatologist José Mareng, Brazil will increasingly be a "climate of extremes".
For many climate experts, the rise in temperatures on the planet produces extreme phenomena such as the last rains in Minas, which are the most intense in the last 100 years, becoming more and more frequent.
Days before the rains that hit Minas Gerais, the region was hit by a heatwave. In Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state, which was hard hit by the rains, the highest temperature this year was recorded at 34.3ºC.
