Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. The head of Nepal’s tourism board told CBS News Thursday that 65 U.S. nationals were among those missing in the wake…
The Hong Kong Observatory has issued the amber rainstorm warning and urged residents to brace for widespread heavy rain and potential flooding under the influence of a broad trough of low pressure. The signal, sent out at 9.50am, was the second amber rainstorm warning to be issued on Friday. An earlier alert went out just…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong recorded at least 11 flooding cases in the northern New Territories while the amber rainstorm warning signal was in force. The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled the warning signal at 11.55am on Tuesday,…
Hong Kong’s northern districts were drenched in a downpour on Wednesday night when the Observatory issued an amber rainstorm warning, with multiple flooding reports received across the area. The warning, issued at 9pm, signalled heavy rain exceeding 30mm (1.2 inches) in an hour that was likely to continue, and cautioned of flooding in low-lying and…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s weather forecaster has issued an amber rainstorm warning, calling on the public to seek safe shelter as thunderstorms and intense gusts are set to hit the city. The Hong Kong Observatory raised…
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A powerful storm is pummeling California, bringing heavy rains that could help to counter the high winds fueling a fast-growing wildfire in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but they could also unleash dangerous flooding and landslides further south, where previous fires have stripped vegetation. There were apocalyptic scenes overnight as the Pack Fire, burning near the…
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More than a million people have been evacuated and at least one person killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong’s expected landfall on the east coast. Irescuers evacuate people to safer grounds in Quezon province, eastern Philippines, as Typhoon Fung-wong enters the country on Sunday,(AP) The super typhoon, which comes…
The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines climbed past 90 on Wednesday as the devastating impact on hard-hit Cebu province became clearer after the worst flooding in recent memory. A resident navigates a flooded street as they evacuate to safer grounds as Typhoon Kalmaegi affects Cebu city, central Philippines.(AP) Floodwaters described as unprecedented…