Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency on 10 July, 2019, in preparation for an oncoming tropical storm. An area of low pressure (named Potential Tropical Cyclone…
The flood situation in Assam, India, has worsened over the last 3 days. The annual monsoon flooding in Assam began around 25 June this year, when over 700 people were…
Several communities have been cut-off and tourists left stranded after flooding in remote areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province in Pakistan. KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said a glacial…
The Ipswich Tidal Flood Barrier in England, UK, has won an Exceptional Merit Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East of England Merit Awards. The project, which better…
Over 100mm of rain fell in just a few hours in north-eastern Spain, causing flash floods in the Navarre region on 08 July, 2019. According to Meteo Navarra, the town…
Dozens of people had to be rescued from vehicles and flooded homes after record rain caused flooding in areas around Washington D.C. on 08 July, 2019. Heavy rain was reported…
Heavy monsoon rainfall in south-eastern Bangladesh has caused landslides and flooding in refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar (Chittagong Division) where more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees live. According to the Office…
Heavy rain has triggered floods in parts of eastern China. Disaster authorities report that 6,351 people have been relocated and a total of 228,000 affected in Jiangxi Province. Severe weather…
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the storm and measured the rate in which rain was falling throughout it. The GPM core satellite passed over…
After passing over Hainan Island in southern China, Tropical Depression ‘Mun’ made landfall in Thái Bình Province in Vietnam on the evening of 03 July, 2019 with maximum sustained winds…
The Directorate of Civil Protection (DPC) in Haiti reports that 2 people have died in floods after torrential rain in Ouest Department during the evening of 02 July, 2019. The…
In the wake of yet more costly floods in Canada, the country’s insurance industry body is calling for politicians to commit to a National Flood Action Plan. The spring flooding…
In response to a series of floods that wreaked havoc across large parts of Tajikistan in early June, the European Union is providing €70,000 EUR (over TJS 750,000) in humanitarian…
Dozens of people have died after torrential monsoon rainfall caused severe flooding in parts of Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra, India. The heavy rain began on 01 July, 2019.…
Nearly 1 million people are under evacuation orders on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan after days of torrential rain threatened to trigger flooding and landslides. According to figures…
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) have released their annual disaster statistics report for 2018. According to CRED’s figures, in 2018, there were 315 natural disaster…
