People around the world are dying in ‘unprecedented’ heavy rains this week

Countries around the globe are seeing heavy rainfall and flooding, just days after a heat wave last week smashed global heat records.

Countries around the globe are seeing heavy rainfall and flooding, just days after a heat wave last week smashed global heat records.

July 3 marked the hottest day ever recorded, followed by July 4, which followed a June that also crushed monthly heat records.

Now, the heavy rains and flooding are causing deaths in the United States, India and Japan, and have also forced hundreds to evacuate in Quebec.

Here’s a look at how people around the world have been grappling with the latest bout of extreme wet weather.

On July 10, officials said that 220 homes were evacuated in Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval, Que., near Quebec City after more than 70 millimetres of rain fell just north of the town, which caused water levels to rise.

And the threat isn’t over yet as Environment Canada predicts another 80-120 millimetres of rain in the area by the end of Tuesday.

Officials said several areas in southern and central Quebec were being monitored for flood risks and also for potential landslides.

“The precipitation that falls on waterways, we see the water level rise in real time, but landslides are more insidious, sometimes enough water falls to impact the ground so that it becomes susceptible to a landslide that finally takes place a few days after,” said Joshua Menard-Suarez, a Public Safety Department spokesman.