Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal By: AFP on October 20, 2021More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said on Wednesday, with scores more missing. In Uttarakhand in northern India, officials said that 46 people had died in recent days with 11 missing. In Kerala in the […]
Rain lashes twin cities, snowfall continues at Chillas region By: Web Desk on October 18, 2021Heavy rain and lightning lashed twin cities, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, where many of feeders have been tripped and various low-lying areas and roads inundated with rainwater. However, Islamabad Electric Supply Company teams have started working on fault and tripping on several feeders. Furthermore, the Pakistan Meteorological Department predicted that dry weather will hold in most […]
15 dead after heavy rain, floods in China coal region By: AFP on October 12, 2021At least 15 people have died during unseasonably heavy rain and flooding in north China’s Shanxi province earlier this month, local officials said Tuesday, after the normally dry region received three months’ rain in one week. The flooding hit the coal-rich landlocked region during a nationwide energy crunch, and after record floods killed more than […]
Thai flood victims ‘start from zero’ after killer storm By: AFP on September 30, 2021Watching his fridge float across the kitchen and bed disappear underwater was not how Samran Buachumsuk hoped to begin retirement at his newly built home in central Thailand. Flooding after tropical storm Dianmu has hit 31 provinces, killed seven people and inundated more than 215,000 households, authorities say. About 150 kilometers (93 miles) south, the […]
Weather: Extremely heavy rains expected in Karachi By: Web Desk on September 28, 2021The Madhya Pradesh monsoon system is expanding swiftly to the northwest. From Oman or Balochistan, this intense monsoon system will join the Arabian Sea through Gujarat on September 29. Deep Depressions and Tropical Storms can become even more powerful when they approach the Arabian Sea. From September 28 to October 2, this powerful monsoon system […]