Flooding News
Parts of Ecuador have been hit by torrential rainfall, floods and landslides for the second time in a week. Heavy rain between 19 and 20 January 2016 caused flooding in…
Floods and landslides in Indonesian over the last few days have left as many as 5 people dead and 1 missing. Authorities say that the rainy season arrived later than…
Winter storm Jonas has swept northwards along eastern USA, affecting over 80 million people. The Nor’easter brought high levels of snowfall and winds up to 80 mph (130 kmh). At…
Days of constant rain since 15 January 2016 have put several municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on flood and landslide alert. According to the State Environmental…
Several periods of heavy rainfall in Tanzania since 14 January 2016 have caused flooding in the regions of Mwanza and Dodoma, according to local media. At least 400 people have…
The National Emergency Operating Center (CENOE: Centro Nacional Operativo de Emergencia) in Mozambique announced last week that 33 people had died as a result of strong wind, heavy rain and…
As many as 29 municipalities in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, have declared a state of emergency after heavy rain and floods that began in early January 2016. The flooding…
Heavy rain that began on 19 January 2016 has caused flooding in the Manabí and Guayas provinces of Ecuador. Manabí Province In the province of Manabí, the heavy rain began…
Floods in parts of East Java, Indonesia, have forced at least 500 people to evacuate their homes. Meanwhile in North Aceh, the floods that affected 12 districts have started to…
Around 25 families have been left homeless after rivers overflowed, destroying their homes in Guanay, Larecaja province, about 140 km north of the capital La Paz, Bolivia. A further 600…
Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB) reported yesterday that flooding in Aceh Province, on the island of Sumatra, has forced 1,505 people to evacuate. Several days of heavy rain increased…
Since late December 2015, heavy rains, driven by a strong El Niño, have increased river levels in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. At one point flooding had forced over 150,000…
NASA have published images of the overflowing Lower Mississippi, taken on 11 January 2016. The Mississippi became swollen after the floodwater from upstream moved south. In late December, 2015, heavy…
The US Geological Survey (USGS) say that the December 2015 flooding of Arkansas rivers was some of the worst seen since 1990. Significant flood peaks occurred across the Arkansas, White…
Alabama and Missouri, two states affected by the wave of severe weather during late December 2015, have requested federal assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to aid recovery…
The civil defence authority in the Brazilian state of Paraná, Defesa Civil do Paraná, report that heavy rain between 09 and 12 January, 2016, has caused widespread flooding in 49…
