Flooding News
Disaster authorities in the Philippines report that heavy rain from Tropical Storm ‘Kalmaegi’ (known in the Philippines as Ramon), has caused flooding in Albay, Catanduanes, Camarines Nord and Camarines Sur provinces…
Heavy rain in northwest Colombia has caused further flooding in Antioquia Department. This is the third flood event in the department since late October. Around 22 homes were destroyed by…
At least one person has died and dozens have been displaced after days of heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in Espirito Santo state in south-eastern Brazil. The municipalities of…
Severe weather including flooding has affected parts of central Panama, including districts of the capital Panama City, over the last few days. Authorities report that hundreds of people have been…
The severe weather system that has affected areas around the southern Mediterranean, including Algeria and Italy, has also caused flash flooding in Tunisia. Institut National de la Météorologie-Tunisie reported that…
Update, 16 November 2019 Another high tide hit Venice again on 15 November, flooding the city once again just 3 days after the second highest tide on record left over…
At least 1 person has died and 3 were rescued after flash floods in Algeria on 12 November. Severe weather affected wide areas of the country from 11 November, brought…
Storms and heavy rain from 11 November caused flash flooding in areas of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, including Durban and the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. Ethekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda confirmed…
Vietnam’s Disaster Management Authority reports that 424 houses were flooded following the passage of Tropical Cyclone Nakri over south-central areas of the country. Most of the damaged homes are in…
At least 24 people have died and more than 2 million displaced after Tropical Cyclone ‘Bulbul’ hit coastal areas of Bangladesh and the states of West Bengal and Odisha in…
Around 40,000 people have been displaced by flooding along the Ubangi River in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Flooding began in October after a period of heavy rain…
Heavy rain in the Philippines brought by Typhoon ‘Nakri’ (known locally as ‘Quiel’) has caused flooding and landslides on Luzon Island. Former Tropical Storm Nakri strengthened into a Typhoon in…
Update, 09 November 2019: One person died in the flooding after being swept away by the flooding River Derwent in Darley Dale, near Matlock in Derbyshire. Further evacuations were carried…
Communities have been cut off and dozens of homes damaged after flooding in Montenegro from 05 November, 2019. The Ministry of Emergency Management in Montenegro reported that days of heavy…
Rain in central parts of Colombia has triggered flooding and landslides in the departments of Tolima and Antioquia. Heavy rain caused a landslide in an area known as Mosquitos in…
Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Guatemala have caused death and destruction in Huehuetenango and Guatemala Departments. The country’s disaster authority, CONRED, also reported several incidents of flooding in Quetzaltenango,…
