At least one person has been killed and millions are under flood watches as parts of the northeastern United States were hit with severe rain and heavy flooding over the weekend. More than 13 million Americans were under flood watches and warnings from eastern New York state to Boston and western Maine to the northeast, the…

At least one death was confirmed after a storm system brought heavy rain and flooding to the northeastern United States on Sunday and now Monday, prompting officials in New York state to declare an emergency. The National Weather Service also listed much of the northeastern United States under various flood warnings and advisories as the…

NEW YORK—Heavy rain spawned extreme flooding in New York’s Hudson Valley that killed at least one person, swamped roadways, and forced road closures on Sunday night, as much of the rest of the Northeast U.S. braced Monday for potentially punishing rains. As the storm moved east, the National Weather Service extended flash flood warnings into…

Torrential rain across northern India has killed at least 22 people, as well as causing landslides and flash floods in the region, authorities and local media said on Monday. Schools in New Delhi were closed after heavy rains lashed the national capital over the weekend, and authorities in the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and…

BEIJING—Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a relative respite from the sweltering heat. Beijing reported 9.8 straight days when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F), the National Climate Center said Monday. Such a streak was last recorded in 1961—decades before most Beijing residents had air conditioning or…

OMAHA, Neb.—The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars—or more—to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2020 ruling that the federal…

At least 13 people have died and thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes amid devastating flooding across Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region that has destroyed homes and agricultural lands. Torrential rains this week across the region triggered up to 300 landslides, and caused 23 overflowing rivers while flooding municipalities. Some 400 roads were also damaged or…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand police said they have found the body of a high school student in a cave after a school group got into trouble when floodwaters hit. A group of 15 students and two adults had set out Tuesday morning on a trip to the Abbey Caves in Whangārei as part of an…

Few people, when getting into their car to drive to work, wonder whether the trip might not go as planned; we get into the car and we go. But the recent once-in-a-millenium flooding in South Florida made it clear that even short drives can suddenly go awry. In the recent flooding, some drivers ran out…

Large sections of southern Quebec remain under rainfall warnings, with provincial and municipal officials warning residents to take precautions against flooding. The warnings cover several regions in south and central Quebec, including the Eastern Townships and Quebec City, however they have since lifted warnings for Montreal and the Laurentians. Environment Canada initially said some areas…