Category Flash Flooding Alert

Super typhoon Nanmadol batters southern Japan, ‘forcing more than 8 million to flee their homes’

As an intense typhoon batters southern Japan with torrential rain and gales, authorities have ordered millions people to evacuate their homes, according to local reports. Public broadcaster NHK said local governments have now ordered more than eight million people in…

‘Rain bomb’ hits Australia’s northeast, killing seven in floods

A severe storm system pummelled Australia’s northeastern city of Brisbane on Sunday, causing evacuations, power outages and school closures as the death toll climbed to seven from accompanying flash floods. More than 1,400 homes in the capital of Queensland state…

Death toll rises as heavy rains batter northern India

At least 41 people have died and more than a dozen were missing after landslides and flash floods triggered by several days of heavy rain hit northern India, officials say. Officials in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand said 35 people…