Up to 100 dead in Brazil after worst rains in 50 years

The Times
"...The head of Rio de Janeiro's civil defence department told TV Globo the amount of rain that had fallen was "more than any city is capable of supporting".The heavy rain began during Monday's evening rush hour, catching workers heading home for the day off-guard. After a brief afternoon lull, rain on Tuesday again intensified after sunset, and officials warned that flooding could worsen on Wednesday.The heavy rains in Rio followed equally heavy deluges in Sao Paulo earlier this year which claimed dozens of lives after the wettest summer in the region in more than six decades, officials said.Inmet, the national weather service which has kept rainfall records since 1917, said that the Tuesday rainfall was the heaviest in the last 48 years."
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The great drought (not) Dr Richard North
"Reading the warmist literature on Brazil, you would find it difficult to avoid the impression that that Amazon rain forest was in the grip of perpetual drought, on the brink of collapse. But, as we remarked earlier, warmist history stops in 2005 in the year of the last great drought. Since then, though, we have seen record rainfalll."