Floods and flooding in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania
The heavy rain has continued to fall in North Queensland, with flooding affecting areas around Townsville from 30 January, 2019. A few days earlier wide areas of the north of…
Torrential rain and swollen rivers have left communities cut off and farmland inundated in parts of northern Queensland, Australia. According to figures from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) over 620…
Severe weather brought by storms and tropical cyclones Penny and Mona, has affected several Pacific islands over the last 2 weeks. At least 3 deaths have been reported with a…
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Owen dumped record rainfall in North Queensland from 15 to 16 December, 2018. Queensland Police warned that the “significant rainfall has resulted in an increase in water flow…
New flood maps for Canberra provide the most comprehensive flood risk information ever available to the Territory, Minister for Planning and Land Management Mick Gentleman said on 04 December, 2018.…
The low pressure area formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Owen continued to organize and cross the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia on Dec. 11. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or…
A series of storms lashed Sydney and nearby regions in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, causing flash floods and wind damage. Bureau of Meteorology, (BOM) New South Wales said Sydney…
NASA’s GPM Core observatory satellite captured an image of Super Typhoon Yutu when it flew over the powerful storm just as the center was striking the central Northern Mariana Islands…
Tropical Cyclone ‘Mangkhut’ formed over the North West Pacific Island on 07 September, 2018, and moved toward Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, causing wind damage and some flooding from…
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible image of Typhoon Mangkhut lashing Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands. On Sept. 7 when Mangkhut formed…
Sea-level rise is already threatening some communities around the world, particularly small island states, as it exacerbates disasters resulting from storm surges and flooding. If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated,…
Tonga has launched a revised Joint National Action Plan on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (JNAP2). The plan will play a central role in guiding Tonga’s efforts to build…
As the world warms, the storm clouds gather. And Australian rain is now often of a ferocity and intensity without precedent, writes Tim Radford for Climate News Network. LONDON, 8…
PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pacific island nations are some of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, yet only a handful have signed up to an insurance scheme…
A deep sub-tropical low brought severe weather, including torrential rain, to parts of New Zealand‘s North Island yesterday, 11 June, 2018. Some areas have recorded around 200 mm of rain…
Hobart is a city known for its risk of catastrophic fire, such as the devastating wildfires of 1897-98 and 1967. As the second-driest city in Australia, until last week it…
