Kurseong is a small town in Darjeeling district, which besides the DHR chugging right thru its length, its myriad tea gardens which almos...| savethehills.blogspot.com
From late June 2025, intense monsoon rainfall led to severe flooding in northern Pakistan, particularly in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.| World Weather Attribution
One of the deadliest events took place in Colombia, where the June rain fell on saturated soils, leading to a massive landslide that hit Granizal, near Medellín, claiming 27 lives (Alcaldía Bello, 7 July, 2025). In Venezuela, the states of Mérida, Trujillo, and Táchira were among the worst impacted regions. Sustained rainfall in these parts led to the rivers Motatán and Burate to overflow, damaging infrastructure, flooding homes, and sweeping away buildings and vehicles (The Watchers, 25...| World Weather Attribution
From May 19-23, heavy rains caused widespread flooding across eastern New South Wales.| World Weather Attribution
In early April, a number of severe storms hit the Central Mississippi river valley in the United States, marked by extreme rainfall and a record number of tornado warnings.| World Weather Attribution
In mid-February 2025, southern Botswana and eastern South Africa were hit by heavy rainfall, sparking severe flooding across the region. The floods claimed at least 31 lives, including 22 in KwaZulu-Natal (Mhlophe-Gumede, 2025), near Durban, and at least nine in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, amongst them six children (Government of Botswana, 2025). At least 5,000 people have been displaced. The flooding across the border between Botswana and South Africa, caused by heavy rainfall from the 1...| World Weather Attribution
Every December, people ask us how severe the year’s extreme weather events were. To answer this question, we’ve partnered with Climate Central to produce a report that reviews some of the most significant events and highlights findings from our attribution studies. It also includes new analysis looking at the number of dangerous heat days added by climate change in 2024 and global resolutions for 2025 to work toward a safer, more sustainable world.| World Weather Attribution
Subsequent floods killed more than 200 people, displaced more than 400 people, and saw hundreds of thousands lose access to water and electricity (GDACS, 2024). The death toll is the highest in a flood event in Europe since 1967 and is expected to rise further in coming days (BBC, 2024). | World Weather Attribution
The influence of climate change on tropical cyclones is more complex compared to other types of extreme weather events as impacts are driven by both heavy rainfall and extreme winds. In addition, the surrounding conditions, in particular the sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico and wider basin, are crucial for the formation of hurricanes. Here, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, use several different approaches to investigate the inf...| World Weather Attribution
Typhoon Gaemi (known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina) strengthened into a tropical storm on July 20th while tracking northwest towards the Philippines. Gaemi did not make landfall in the Philippines but interacted with the ongoing southwest monsoon (known locally as Habagat), causing heavy winds and torrential rainfall from July 22-24 in the northern Philippines. In total, 48 people were killed, with around 6.5 million affected by the severe conditions. 45 landslides were triggered...| World Weather Attribution
The worst affected country was Afghanistan, where 540 fatalities have been reported since March (WFP, 2024). In Pakistan, at least 124 people died in severe flooding in Pakistan in April (OCHA, 2024), while 18 people died in Iran in May (Iran International Newsroom, 2024). In addition, the heavy rainfall damaged thousands of homes and submerged agricultural lands. | World Weather Attribution