Category Rain Alert

UK WEATHER ALERT

STORM SYSTEM BARNEY WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 50 – 80 MPH IN MANY PLACES COUPLED WITH HEAVY RAIN TO S, SW, SE AND CENTRAL AREAS ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY **BE ALERT**

Major landslide buries homes killing many; Dozens missing in East China

The death toll from a landslide that buried homes in eastern China has risen to 21 people with 16 others still missing, a local government said Sunday.   A torrent of mud and rocks unleashed by heavy rains buried nearly…

Severe flooding causes hundreds to evacuate and 200 alerts with a month’s worth of rain arriving in one weekend in parts of the UK

Hundreds of properties in Britain are today under threat from life-threatening flooding as the country is hit by up to eight inches of rain.   Emergency evacuation plans are in place in a Cumbrian town after river levels rose yesterday…

Cyclone number 2 kills at least 13 in Socotra island, Yemen

Winds and rain from the second rare cyclone to hit Yemen in two weeks have killed 13 people, including three children, on Yemen’s Socotra island, the fisheries minister said on Tuesday.   Cyclone Megh slammed into Socotra on Sunday with…