Tag: #flooding

Mozambique Floods Swamp Gaza Province, Forcing Mass Displacement and Raising Disease Fears

Weeks of heavy rain have displaced more than 300,000 people in Mozambique, wrecking homes and roads and heightening cholera and hunger risks.

#mozambique, #flooding, #humanitarian, #climate, #cholera

Storm Chandra floods Dublin’s M50, knocks out power and shuts hundreds of schools across Ireland

Heavy rain and strong winds from Storm Chandra flooded key roads including Dublin’s M50, cut power to 30,000+ properties and closed 500+ schools.

#stormchandra, #ireland, #flooding, #dublin, #poweroutages

Storm Chandra floods roads and closes hundreds of schools across Ireland

Heavy rain on saturated ground left parts of Dublin and the southeast flooded, cutting power to thousands and closing 500+ schools across Ireland.

#ireland, #stormchandra, #flooding, #meteireann, #poweroutages

Sydney records wettest January day in 38 years as flash floods trigger rescues and evacuations

A weekend deluge swamped Sydney’s north, forcing evacuations and rescues, and renewing warnings that warming is intensifying extreme rain.

#sydney, #flooding, #extremerain, #australia, #climatechange

Storm Ingrid heads for Britain, raising flood fears in Scotland, Wales and southwest England

Slow-moving Storm Ingrid brings heavy rain and 60mph gusts. Amber warning in eastern Scotland as saturated ground heightens flood risk.

#stormingrid, #ukweather, #flooding, #metoffice, #scotland