Tag Archives: Rains

Heavy rain brought flash flooding to Australia’s largest city Sydney on Sunday, prompting rescues and residents to sandbag houses, as authorities warned of bad weather ahead. Emergency authorities received 50 calls for assistance, mostly for sandbagging of properties and help plugging leaking roofs, from residents in Sydney, the capital of …

A record amount of rain – the equivalent of two months’ rainfall in three hours – fell on Wednesday evening in the city of Agen in southwestern France, with streets turning into rivers, cars submerged and houses flooded. In some parts of Agen, in France’s Lot-et-Garonne region, there were as …

One woman was dead and two people were missing on Saturday after torrential rains touched off a landslide and engulfed at least two houses in western Japan, with rivers overflowing their banks as the rain continued to pound the area. A wide swath of western Japan, particularly the southernmost main …

The Spanish town of Villar del Olmo in the south of the Madrid region was hit by heavy rain and flooding as Spain’s cold drop moved to the center of the country.