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The 1998 summer—time floods at the Yangtze River basin of China, the severest in last 50 years or so, directly resulted from the abnormal extension of Meiyu (rainy season), which was related to a weak East Asian summer monsoon and persistent anomalies of extratropical circulation. The long persistence of block-ing over the Ural Mountains is a conspicuous feature. The physical processes responsible...
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