Floods

The death toll from flooding in Istanbul and Kocaeli, Turkey, rose to five on Oct. 16, 2026, after the body of Mustafa Gedikli, a former neighborhood headman swept away by floodwaters in Kocaeli, was…

The National Weather Service's Charleston, West Virginia, office confirmed a flash flood near Salem, in Doddridge County, at 8:40 p.m. local time on Oct. 14, 2026. Part of Traugh Fork Road was washed…

A flood that struck Nepal's Budhi Gandaki River before dawn on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, has knocked out electricity to thousands of households in Gorkha District and driven a rescue operation that had…

The National Weather Service had five Flood Warnings in force across Georgia, South Carolina and Florida late Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Two of the warnings, for rivers in Florida, were newly issued.…

Flooding from the rising Paraná River has evacuated 185 families, about 700 people, from the San Rafael neighborhood of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Paraguay's national emergency authority, the…

Flash flooding swept across Clark County in southern Nevada and Mohave County in northwestern Arizona on Oct. 11, 2026. The flooding triggered a series of swift-water rescues in the Las Vegas valley…

Rising water on the Paraná River forced evacuations in four Paraguayan communities this weekend, including 60 families moved out of Ciudad del Este's San Rafael neighborhood. Paraguay's La Nación…

A seasonal climate forecast is not one prediction. It is a crowd of them: the same model run many times over, each copy nudged from a slightly different starting point, each drifting into its own…

Spring on the Chaudière River does not arrive quietly. The ice cover breaks into slabs, the slabs start moving, and where a tributary empties in they can stop moving all at once: a plug of broken ice…

The flash-flood warning the National Weather Service office in Flagstaff sent at 2:42 p.m. on August 29 was not drawn around a county. It was written for "The Bright Angel Creek Basin below the…

The people of Thame heard it before they saw it. The village sits high in Nepal's Everest region, a short walk up the valley from Namche Bazar, the trekking gateway to the Khumbu, and what came down…

Somewhere in a pension fund's accounts there is a line for property: warehouses, offices, retail parks. It is a large line, and it is the part of the portfolio that cannot be moved when a river comes…