The Latest Breaking News from Flood

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting disasters, when “once-in-a-lifetime” storms hit in such rapid succession that their impacts blurred together.

Parts of the Queensland coast copped a battering into Wednesday of more than 100mm in less than six hours

Meanwhile, a tropical disturbance in the Atlantic is likely to develop into a named storm within days

Heavy rain and possible flash flooding is forecast for northeast NSW as wild weather makes its way across the border from Queensland.

Hurricane Debby remnants cause floods, power outages in U.S. with warnings in North Carolina. Fatality reported in N.C. due to flooding.

The weather system dubbed Debby isn't quite done affecting parts of the U.S. After arriving in Florida as a hurricane Aug. 5, the storm spent nearly a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives along the East Coast before moving into Canada on Saturday

A flood alert was sounded in downstream Koppal as authorities immediately opened all except five dam gates to take off the pressure on just one. This would reduce the reservoir level to allow repair work of Gate number 19. Read further on Dynamite News:

Tropical Storm Debby causes widespread flooding and devastation in the US, highlighting the importance of preparedness.

Photographer Natalie Grono's stirring images of the NSW Northern Rivers floods form a new exhibition that reminds viewers of the enormity of the devastation.