Floods

An outbreak of violent thunderstorms, including large, destructive tornadoes, is predicted in the Southern Plains through Monday night. “Particularly dangerous situation” tornado watches have been issued for western and central Oklahoma, including...

Scatter severe thunderstorms stretching from Texas to Ohio Valley brought tornadoes and flooding across several states. The storms overturned trucks, damaged homes and forced many to seek high ground. At least seven...

A portion of downtown Davenport, Iowa, was inundated with flood waters up to six feet deep after a temporary levee meant to hold back the rising Mississippi River failed Tuesday.

Heavy rain in South Africa has caused flooding in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces. Floods and mudslides in the South African city of Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal province have...

Police and emergency services rescued hundreds of people during a storm 13 to 14 April, 2019, which caused major flash flooding in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost emirate of the United Arab...

Midwestern farmers are not about to let historic flooding put them under. It's the Nebraska way. It's #NebraskaStrong #PrayersForNebraska #NebraskaFlood2019 Paul Allen, a 75-year old...

Torrential rains doused Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, killing at least six people and sowing chaos in Brazil’s second largest city, which declared a state of emergency after a storm that the...

On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that “historic, widespread flooding” would “continue through July”.  More than 90 percent of the upper Midwest and Great Plains is currently covered by...

After Australia and US midwest, now Iran. Flooding in Iran has killed at least 70 people, forced the mass evacuation of thousands, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to...

A motorway bridge over the Waiho River was washed away in a severe rain storm on Tuesday, prompting the authorities to declare a state of emergency, and to close 300 km (186...

At least 17 people, including three children, were killed and as many as 68 were injured in heavy flooding in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Monday. Heavy rains resulted in...

Record floodwaters that submerged vast stretches of Nebraska and Iowa farmland along America's longest river reached a new crest on Friday at the waterfront city of St. Joseph, Missouri, forcing chaotic evacuations...

"This is the biggest disaster, as far as damage, we've ever experienced in our state," says Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts. Nebraska historic floods kill millions of livestock

Even as a Missouri town was ordered to evacuate Wednesday, officials are already beginning to tally up the damage from the historic flooding that has devastated the Midwest, which could be in...

These pictures are worth a thousand words Destroyed Spencer dam picture. via Facebook post below Hope is everything calming down in...

Nebraska’s lone nuclear plant was preparing to shut down Friday in the face of record rises in the Missouri River. Security shut down should occur if the river rises to 45.5 feet....

Deadly flood waters in central Nebraska took its vengeance on the Niobrara River and surrounding areas early Thursday morning. Overwhelming ice and water breached the Spencer Dam and Highway 281 bridge just...

Dead Valley averages just 2.36 inches of rain a year. It picked up 0.64 inches of rain in the 24 last hours ending 4 a.m. PST on Wednesday... This represents about 27%...

At least 20 people, including many children, have been killed in flash floods in six districts and the capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, the United Nations has said.

Heavy rainfall and flooding sparked chaos in Amman’s streets on Thursday. An extreme rainstorm flooded the streets of Amman, Jordan. Cars were washed away and...

The weather is going CRAZY again in California. Another EXTREME atmospheric river has brought INCREDIBLE rain that caused river levels to increase dramatically in Northern California. Russian River...

Californians are always talking about the coming Big One, but what if the big one is a flood, not an earthquake? The ARkStorm would bring with it catastrophic rains, hurricane-force winds and hundreds...

The Flinders River has gone from thin and dry to 37 miles (60 kilometers) wide in a matter of weeks as a result of floods in northeast Australia, satellite imagery shows.

After thousands of cows and chickens died in Uruguay and Argentina due to extreme heat, up to 300,000 cattle have died during the unprecedented floods that engulfed Townsville and the western region...

This is another proof of the weather chaos on Earth. Parts of the Atacama desert, the driest place on Earth, are flooded. Heavy showers on high altitudes in northern Chile have caused...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced that flash floods have killed at least 30 people across the desert nation over the past month. The government has issued an emergency warning as the situation is...

At least 12 people were killed in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan after torrential rains triggered insane flash flooding on November 9, 2018, resulting in the evacuation of thousands of people. Petra is...

Brent Larson awoke at 4 a.m. to the shake and rumble of what felt like a freight train rolling down the hill toward his Santa Barbara County home. He leaped from his bed and...

This is amazing! This river has just taken 10 meters in height in just a few days of rain during unprecedented storms in Italy. Thousands of citizens have been evacuated in the Treviso area after...

Beginning of last year, we reported that the lagoons of Venice had almost dried up. Nine months later, today, nearly three-quarters of Venice, Italy, was flooded because of a storm system that brought strong...

A storm that surprised everyone with its intensity and duration brought havoc to the Morongo Basin Friday night and Saturday. Thunder, lightning, rain, and hail started about 10:30 p.m. Friday and by 11:15, first...

Deadly floods hit the Spanish island of Mallorca, killing 5 and injuring 3 on October 9, 2018. Several people are still missing while 200 residents have been evacuated. Worst hit was the city of...

It's raining like hell in Iran since two days. The downpour, that has started on Friday, has been the heaviest during the past 20 years in the northern part of the country. The biblical...

While Japan is devastated by unprecedented floods - dozens of dead and 3.2 million people evacuated - a M6.1 earthquake, now donwgraded to M5.9 by USGS, has hit off the eastern coast of the...

That is apocalyptic! Strong floods washed away streets in Lake Linden, MI in Houghton County on June 17, 2018. These aftermath pictures by Steve Haagen are just amazing!  Prayers for the victims! And always be ready...

Turkey's capital Ankara was hit Saturday by a sudden flood, which was caused by heavy rainfall in the central Anatolian province. The flood dragged dozens of vehicles from the streets in Ankara's Mamak district. Videos...

More than 211,000 people have been displaced, 72 people have died and 33 others have been injured by flooding in Kenya since March 2018. The current wave of flooding began around mid-April. In mid-March...

This is the insane moment a coach smashes against a bridge as torrential floods engulfed the city of Petropolis in Brazil on March 3, 2018.  Here another perspective: On Saturday 3, 2018, the neighborhood of Morin...

Another winter storm that brought snow, rain, and wind to parts of New England caused flooding along the South Shore of Massachusetts on Tuesday morning. Part of the January storm surge is being blamed on...

The River Seine has overflowed its banks in Paris, prompting authorities to close several streets and cancel boat cruises. Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine from the east...