As Cyclone Mandous approaches, Chennai experiences heavy rain and strong winds

Due to severe weather today, 16 flights were canceled at Chennai airport before of the landfall.

Officials reported the storm made landfall about midnight in Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram) in Tamil Nadu, between Puducherry and Sriharikota, with wind speeds of 70 km/h. Heavy rain fell alon...

Heavy rains cause North Korea to halt reopening the tunnel at the nuclear test site.

Washington-reporter reported on Monday that Due to the result of heavy rain, North Korea appears to have temporarily suspended operations to reactivate an inactive tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site.

According to commercial satellite images taken on August 24 and published on...

AUSTRALIA FACES WORST FLOODS IN 60 YEARS

Highlights:

• The government of Australia has been planning to evacuate thousands of people from the western region of Sydney
• Australia has been facing the worst floods in 60 years

The authorities of Australia have been planning to eva...

AUSTRALIA: RESIDENTS EVACUATED AS SYDNEY BATTERED BY HEAVY RAINS

Highlights:

• The residents in Sydney have been battered by the floods caused by heavy rains
• A life threatening and record-breaking downpour has flooded the rivers in the country

On Saturday, a potentially life threatening, and record-...

EUROPEAN UNION TO PROVIDE 1.65 MILLION EURO AS AN AID TO VICTIMS OF FLOODS IN SOUTH ASIA

Highlights:

• The number of youths in the population of Germany is been decreasing constantly
• The current figures show that there are only 10.3 per cent youths in the overall population of Germany

The percentage of the young adults and...

GREECE: AT LEAST SEVEN KILLED AFTER FLOODS IN EVIA ISLAND

Highlights:

• Flooding have been caused in the island of Evia by thunderstorms and torrential rain in Greece
• At least seven people have lost their lives in the floods in Greece

In Greece, a number of at least seven people which ha...

WEATHER FORECAST: DELHI, WEST BENGAL TO WITNESS HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY & TOMORROW

Highlights

• Two people lost their lives in the accident that took place on the damaged bridge on NH 31

• The IMD said Delhi will witness heavy rainfall on July 29 and July 30 which could cause water logging

• This heavy rainfall will also cause disrup...

METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY WARNS ABOUT FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES DUE TO HEAVY RAINS IN JAPAN

• Meteorological agency warns about floods and landslides due to heavy rains in Japan.
• Wide areas of western and eastern Japan warned by weather officials.
• Unzen City, Nagasaki Prefecture observed 79 millimeters of hourly rainfall.
• The risk of landslides has...

MUMBAI WITNESSES HEAVY RAIN, IMD ISSUES RED ALERT FOR TODAY

Highlights

• The places in Mumbai, Raigad, Palghar and Thane might see heavy to very heavy rainfall on Saturday said the IMD

• The BMC has urged all the people to stay at safe place till the situation doesn’t get under control

• Many areas in the...

The pleasant recovery of rain after bushfires is threatening our rivers with disaster

Another ecological threat will occur as heavy rainfall finally extinguishes the fires ravaging south-east Australia. Washing sediments, ash and debris in our rivers, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin, will decide aquatic life.

We saw this before. Amid 2003 bushfi...