Local media footage showed residents wading through murky, chest-deep water and cars submerged in flooded streets. “Flooding across eight provinces in southern Thailand has affected 553,921 households and claimed nine lives, prompting agencies to mobilize urgent assistance,” the country’s disaster agency said on its official Facebook page. More than 13,000 people had been forced to […]
Spanish weather forecaster AEMET issued red alerts on Wednesday morning for eastern Tarragona and southern Malaga provinces, saying it expected them to receive as much as 180 millimetres (7.1 inches) of rain within 12 hours that could cause rivers to overflow and generate flash floods. Orange alerts were issued for Thursday for southern Granada and […]
Some areas, including portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, were at risk of “life-threatening flooding,” as water built up on roadways and lapped up against thresholds of homes, the National Weather Service said. A few spots have reported up to 18-to-25 inches (46-to-63.5 cm) of rain since Monday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the […]
Beginning on Saturday and continuing well into next week, two storms—including another extended atmospheric river event—will saturate most of California, increasing the possibility of flooding and landslides. The state is still getting over a particularly strong storm that hit Southern California in early February, bringing record-breaking rainfall and hundreds of mudslides to Los Angeles and […]
Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms, it’s becoming more vulnerable to sudden outbursts of melting glacier water that have the power to bring widespread destruction to its people. The country’s chief meteorologist has warned that this year alone, Pakistan has seen […]
With the flood death toll hitting 937 and still on the rise, the government of Pakistan has declared the monsoon rain-induced floods a “climate-inducted humanitarian crisis of epic proportions”. Leaving 30 million people shelter-less, the floods have caused tremendous damage. The government, both provincial and federal, and many non-governmental organisations are working hard to provide relief to […]
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Wednesday predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in many parts of the country, warning of urban flooding in several major cities and flash flooding in numerous areas of Balochistan Warning about the possible impacts, PMD stated that the heavy rains may generate urban flooding in Karachi, Hyderabad, Tando Jam, […]
