Tag: Rain

Authorities in Shanghai and neighbouring coastal regions cancelled flights, and suspended schools, subways and trains as Typhoon Chanthu approached China after drenching Taiwan though causing little damage there.

Flash flooding killed at least 44 people in four Northeastern states as remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed torrential rains that swept away cars, submerged New York City subway lines and grounded airline flights, officials said on Thursday.

Heavy rains continued to lash parts of Delhi for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. The city is likely to witness moderate to heavy rainfall till 9 am as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert in Delhi.

Dhaka, July 29 (AP) — Days of heavy rainfall have pelted Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended family or in communal shelters. Just in the 24 hours to Wednesday alone, more than 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) of rain fell on the camps in Cox’s Bazar district hosting more than ...

Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125.

Large swathes of China's central Henan province were underwater on Wednesday, with at least a dozen people dead in its capital Zhengzhou after the city was drenched by what weather watchers said was the heaviest rain in 1,000 years.

Fourteen people have died and 245,212 people belonging to 60, 674 families have been affected in ten districts due to adverse weather conditions experienced in the country, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said there is a possibility of ACID RAINS as a result of the blazing X-PRESS PEARL container ship in the seas off the Colombo harbour.

The temperature in Delhi dipped to 23.8 degrees Celsius on Wednesday -- 16 notches below normal and the lowest for May since 1951, as cyclone Tauktae caused heavy rainfall in the national capital.

Jakarta, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, paralyzing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety. Indonesia’s weather agency linked the rains to tropical cyclones that brought bad weather to southern parts of the archipelago. It also warned ...