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PIURA CITY, Peru – A 26-meter tower has risen at kilometer 5.5 of the Piura–Sullana highway . At first glance, it looks like a giant white dome perched on scaffolding. But this isn’t just infrastructure—it’s a climate sentinel . A newly installed weather radar now watches the skies, scanning for storms , rainfall , and wind patterns in real time.   And what it sees could help us understand not just local weather , but global climate phenomena like El Niño and La Niña .   🛰️ What Can This Radar Actually See? The radar system is a C250P Dual-Polarimetric Doppler Radar , built by Advanced Radar Company in Boulder, Colorado. It operates in the C-band, ideal for detecting precipitation and wind fields with high precision.   With a detection range of up to 400 km, and an operational sweep of 200 km, it covers a vast and diverse region: Direction Reach Key Areas North To the Ecuadorian borde...

New deluges slamming the ancient Sícan land.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram     PÍTIPO, Peru – It was a long drought period, people was desperate. Their governors ran to magic to ease the arrival of rains but nothing seemed to work. The angry people conspired, set the main city on fire. Time later, the rain came on… rather, days of true deluges. The place flooded, the people had to move to another safe zone.   It was 1100 AD. At Pomac Forest, people saw their agriculture dying because of the water lack . It hadn’t rained enough during 30 years, and rites of priests and governors were useless. It’s supposed that ignited the riot.   Archeologist Izumi Shimada (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) has researched the place since 1978. It’s known as Batán Grandé today, maybe because of many boulders to exist for grinding minerals due to the old Lambayequé people was expert in goldsmith.   Also known as Sic...

Piura Valley confirmed to be vulnerable to meteorological events.     San Francisco Creek as it loaded on March 24 th , 2023, between Sectors Palominos (at the background) and Malingas, blocking the pass between  Districts Tambograndé and Chulucanas. (Footage provided by  Jhony Dioses , verified by and distributed by FACTORTIERRA)   The Peruvian Government had alerts of heavy to extraordinary rains since the second quarter of February 2023 . That’s why it declared a preventive emergency on March 3 rd . The whole northern half of peru was included in order to urge works preventing disasters, especially at northern coast and sierra, according to forecasts of Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhi, as in Spanish).   Beginning at the north edge, Tumbés Department already came with rains and overflows since February 2023 what isolated many towns, especially at the border with Ecuador . A little more to the south, at Lambaye...

Canchaqué suffered again from a slide of mud and rocks during rains in 2023.     All the footage: © Juan Francisco Facundo Silva .   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru— “Look how it left!,” exclaims Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, a computation technician and producer of a streaming music-TV show, as he saw the debris and the print of a slide of mud and rocks happened just before midnight, March 15 th , 2023.   Juan, artistically known as Facundo, arrived three days later to see how his remaining family was doing in Canchaqué Town , 91 miles by road from Piura City – he couldn’t hold on the sadness despite he tried to manage it by recording with his mobile the clips we share here.   Collating a preliminary report by Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense and testimonies of eyewitnesses gathered by FACTORTIERRA, on March 15 th , 2023, 23:15 PET (0415 UTC, March 16 th , 2023), Púsmalca Valley, where Canchaqué Town is located, had “intense rains.”   Some...