The Latest Breaking News on Floods

The estimate exceeds $6bn paid out by insurers for Australia’s costliest disaster, the 2022 NSW and Queensland floods

Thousands are dead and missing after rains from Storm Daniel triggered the collapse of two dams

Researchers found a new model that has the potential to significantly improve emergency response by lowering flood forecasting time from hours to days and allowing flood behaviour to be reliably anticipated at super-fast speeds as an event unfolds. Read further on Dynamite News:

Rescue efforts could be complicated by the fact that Libya has two rival governments to the east and the west.

At least 2,200 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods.

Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020

The UK has already sweltered through five days of temperatures above 30C in September for the first time, with Saturday making it six-in-a-row.

The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece rose to 10 people Friday, while another four remained missing, the country's civil protection minister said. Rescue crews in helicopters and boats ferried hundreds of people from inundated villages to safety.

Recent images of the devastating flash floods caused by Storm Daniel in Greece hit close to home literally and figuratively. As a Greek who has completed a PhD and worked for the past eight years on flash floods, the scenes unfolding across my homeland are painfully real: a stark reminder…

Hong Kong has closed schools and halted trading on the stock exchange as torrential rain lashed the city overnight, flooding streets in parts of the city and an underground subway station

Burners were forced to endure hours of torrential rains before tens of thousands bailed on the festival. Scientists warn that such large bursts of showers are a result of a warming planet.