Category Tidal Surge Alert

Storm Desmond floods: violent mudslide plunge down mountain as thousands evacuated from homes, UK

Major flood toll hits 325 in India

Fourteen patients in an intensive care unit in the southern Indian city of Chennai have died, taking the death toll in rain-related incidents to 325.   Water had entered the basement of the private hospital, causing disruptions to generators, ventilators…

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…

Super cyclonic storm Chapala strikes Yemen at about 18:00 GMT on 1st November 2015

Super cyclonic storm Chapala struck Yemen as a severe cyclonic storm at about 18:00 GMT on 1 November. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of landfall was near 13.3…

Major Cyclone ravages Yemeni island, heads for LNG plant, Qaeda-run city

A rare tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds killed three people and injured scores on the exotic Yemeni island of Socotra on Monday and then headed towards a gas terminal and an Al Qaeda-controlled town on the mainland.   The World…

Cyclone Chapala will drop 7 years of rain on Yemen

Courtesy of Joshua Baker War-torn Yemen was braced last night for one of the worst storms ever recorded in the area, with seven years’ worth of normal rainfall expected to fall and winds likely to reach 105mph.   The category 4…

Super Cyclone Chapala; 33-feet waves; wind at 170kmph; Oman, Yemen on alert

In its noon update, the Oman Meteorology Department has warned of waves reaching heights of nearly 33 feet and wind speeds accelerating to 170kmph as Cyclone Chapala hits Yemen’s Socotra Island.   Oman is also bearing the brunt of the…

Tornadoes and torrential rains causes complete mayhem in Texas, USA

At least two people were killed when a storm with high winds and heavy rains pelted central Texas on Friday, flooding highways, causing evacuations after rivers overflowed and spawning tornadoes that ripped through buildings outside San Antonio.   The body…