The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Island’s first tropical storm of season may bring 150mm of rain – meanwhile, eastern Europe freezes with possible night-time lows of -30C

Cyclone Fytia hit Madagascar at the weekend, flooding large parts of the northwest of the main island and leaving three people dead, while impacting nearly 30,000 others.

A lorry driver in his 60s has died in a river

Days after taking over, new publicans Tayla and Braydon Wellby were forced to seek higher ground as flooding inundated the region - including their hotel.

Sea level rise has long been viewed as a concern of the future, discussed in abstract forecasts and maps. Nonetheless, population growth along the US shoreline has been rapid, particularly in low-lying areas. A new study combines these two patterns. Instead than asking who is at risk now, it looks…

A yellow warning for ice has been issued for huge swathes of the UK on Wednesday including London as temperatures plummet overnight

Weather warnings, incluiding ‘danger to life’ flood threat in Devon, are in place across much of the UK with major travel disruption expected

South-west England bears brunt of storm, but yellow weather warnings are also issued for Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland

Water flooded areas of California's San Joaquin Valley in the spring of 2023, where roads and agriculture had been in place for decades. Rivers were forced out of their channels by frequent strong storms and snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada. Shallow seas swept fields away. For those who knew the…