Flooding News
Forecast-based Financing (FbF) has enabled the Peru Red Cross to act swiftly to assist 2,000 families affected by the recent flooding. Over the last few days, floods have affected northern…
An official report by the Environment Agency in the UK reveals that the winter floods of 2013 to 2014 caused damage in England and Wales costing around £1.3 billion. Residential…
A cold front caused heavy rain on Sunday 28 February in northern and western parts of Haiti, causing flooding in Grand’Anse Department, and also in Cap-Haitien and Limonade in Department…
Parts of East and West Java, including Jakarta, Indonesia, experienced heavy rain that began on 25 February 2016, causing floods in the two provinces that have left one person dead…
Intense rain affected northern areas of Bolivia on Saturday 27 February 2016. A landslide in an area of La Paz has damaged several houses and forced almost 30 people from…
Peru continues to struggle with severe weather following the floods and landslides in Puno, Areuipa, Cusco and Junín that left one dead and one missing earlier this month. At least…
The low pressure Atlantic front “Golia” has affected the whole of Italy since the 27 February 2016, causing intense storms and torrential rainfall, with snow in the north and rain…
Heavy rainfall in Malaysia has caused the third wave of flooding in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A torrential downpour that began early on Saturday 27…
Heavy rainfall that began on Friday 26 February, 2016, resulted in flash floods in northern areas of Jamaica in particular the parish of St James. Significant flooding was reported in…
Indonesia’s Nasional Disaster Management Authority (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana – BNPB) says that the influence of El Niño delayed the start of this year’s rainy season. January would normally see…
In Indonesia, Jakarta’s Disaster Management Agency, BPBD, reported earlier today that heavy rainfall in Greater Jakarta and the surrounding areas has caused flooding across several parts of the city, causing…
Intense rain and increasing river levels have been reported in Bolivia since 23 February, 2016. So far Bolivia’s rainy season, under the influence of this year’s strong El-Niño, has mostly…
Parts of central and southern Peru have seen heavy rainfall since mid February 2016. The regions of Puno, Areuipa, Cusco and Junín have all been affected. The severe weather has caused…
Local media in Fiji are reporting that the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Winston now stands at 42, with one person missing and over 100 injured. The number of those…
The Italian environmentalist association Legambiente, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of Natural Resources, recently published a report on climate change impacts and adaptation policies in…
Tropical Cyclone Winston has swept across parts of Fiji causing widespread storm damage and flooding, leaving hundreds of homes totally destroyed. Quoting figures from the country’s National Disaster Management Office,…
