Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in several provinces of Indonesia, including Riau, East Java and Bali, leaving at least 9 people dead. Damaging floods were also reported in West…
Flash flooding on 11 December, 2018, caused severe transport problems in parts of Vancouver, Canada. Roads and highways were submerged. Local news reports said that emergency crews responded to at…
Disaster officials in Vietnam say that at least 2 people have died in flash floods that have affected central parts of the country over the last few days. The victims…
Heavy rain over the last few days has caused flooding in parts of the Mediterranean and Middle East, including Israel, where evacuations have been carried out, and Cyprus where at…
A second storm in a week has caused further flooding and mudslides in California, USA. Following the storm earlier this week that affected burn scar areas in northern California, a…
Record rainfall in the Maldives caused flooding on Wednesday 05 December in parts of the capital, Malé. Local media, quoting Maldives meteorology department, said the capital had experienced a record…
Flooding and landslides have affected several provinces in Indonesia after a period of heavy rain that began around 26 November, 2018. At least 11 people have died and 2 are…
Flash flooding affected fire-scarred areas of Northern California on Thursday, 29 November, 2018. People were rescued from flooded homes and vehicles trapped in flooding near Paradise and Chico in Butte…
The Environment Agency and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) have successfully deployed a mobile weather radar in Cumbria. For the next 12 months, the NCAS X-band radar will…
Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc, could increase threefold by the end…
Update, 03 December 2018 Further heavy rain fell in Iraq from around 29 November according to media reports. Chinese News Agency Xinhua said the province of Nineveh declared state of…
Tropical Storm ‘Usagi’ has caused flooding and wind damage in parts of Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City. Usagi, earlier known as Tropical Cyclone 33W, had previously made landfall as…
Heavy rain from Tropical Depression 33W (known as Samuel in the Philippines) has caused flooding and landslides on the island of Samar in Eastern Visayas Region of the Philippines. Philippines…
If warming rises more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and no adequate adaptation measures are implemented, Europe is in danger of being exposed to more frequent and intense extreme weather…
Heavy rain from around 15 November has caused flash flooding and landslides in parts of eastern Spain and southern France. A man was swept away by flood waters of an…
Media reported that 5 people died in flash floods in Uganda after heavy rain that began on 17 November. Fatalities were reported in areas around the capital Kampala, and in…
