Category Weather Warnings

Floods submerge 350 homes in Indonesia

Heavy rains in Tolitoli Regency in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi Province caused flooding Friday in the villages of Silondou and Janja, according to the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB). A total of 350 homes were damaged and a bridge…

Deadly flooding displaces thousands across Mekong region

Elderly residents and small children clung to inflatable tyres as soldiers and police used rope lines to bring them to safety beyond rising floodwater in Cambodia’s western province of Battambang, which is expected to worsen on Sunday. Hundreds of families…

Nearly 500,000 power outages reported across Texas & Louisiana as Hurricane Delta pummels gulf coast with 80mph gusts

Nearly a half-million residents in Texas and Louisiana have been left without power after Hurricane Delta made landfall along the US gulf coast, battering cities with winds up to 80 miles per hour. Delta hit land in southwest Louisiana on…

Landslide in Guatemala kills four, injures 10

A landslide in southwestern Guatemala has killed at least four people and injured 10 others, civil protection authorities said late on Tuesday. The landslide destroyed eight homes in the municipality of San Marcos La Laguna in the country’s Solola region,…

STORM SURGE UK hit by flash floods after Storm Alex brings MONTH’S worth of rain as river bursts its banks in Wales

STORM Alex has battered Britain leaving a trail of destruction and flash-flooding in its wake. A river in Wales burst its banks after an entire MONTH’S worth of rain fell in some parts of the UK. There are currently 21…

Four missing in floods, landslides in West Java as Indonesia braces for extreme bad weather

Four people were reported missing, with one of them feared dead, as floods and landslides damaged houses and a bridge in Indonesia’s western province of West Java on Saturday (Oct 3) evening, according to disaster agency officials. Heavy downpours has…