At least five people are dead and searches continue for others after a 5-foot (1.5 metre) wall of floodwater crashed through the streets of a town in western Mexico, state officials said Monday.
The interior secretary of Michoacan state told the Milenio television network that five bodies have been found so far. Pascual Sigala said emergency personnel were still working to find nine people reported as missing.
Earlier, a state official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the dead include two children.
Heavy rain on Sunday flooded many roads in Bangkok, including the major arteries of Ratchadaphisek and Ramkhamhaeng. Pictures posted on Twitter showed flooding at Rajamangala National Stadium.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reported stretches of 17 different roads were underwater.
Pattaya and Bang Lamung districts in Chon Buri were also hit by torrential rain on Sunday. The downpour started around 1pm and lasted about two hours, flooding numerous roads and causing traffic congestion.
Pattaya's Beach Road, including the Walking Street section, saw water levels rise to between 30 and 50 centimetres. Officials and volunteers helped move stalled cars to higher ground.
Rains have wreaked havoc in North India with death toll jumping to 25 in incidents of landslides and flash floods being reported from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. The weather department has sounded alert with authorities deploying disaster response force to minimise the risk of further casualties.
In Himachal Pradesh, five deaths were reported as the Beas river has overflown to cause floods in several parts of the state. In Jammu & Kashmir, the maximum damage to life and property has been reported in the elevated Doda district.
Indonesia has lost so much rice production they will import two million additional tons of rice to stabilize prices as price spikes sent food inflation up 12% so far over the last six months. India, Myanmar, Vietnam all significant reduction in yield. Asia turns to Argentina for wheat imports as Russia and Ukraine can no longer supply. Now Argentina putting a 10% export tax on grains.
Its all about shifting global cloud cells and jet streams. Rain moves, droughts form and crops are lost.
A Russian-Icelandic volcanologist has exploded on Twitter, berating the news media for exaggerating her research into Iceland's Katla volcano by claiming that it was due to erupt soon, dwarfing previous major eruptions.
"Incredibly disappointing to see that The Sunday Times have gone down the route of trashy tabloids," the Russian-born, Iceland-raised and Cambridge-educated volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya wrote in a lengthy Twitter tirade, excoriating the news media's coverage, following the publication of an interview she gave about her recently published research.
"This article misinforms their readers and undermines me as a scientist and a specialist in my field," Ilyinskaya added.
Kelsey Wilkie Daily Mail Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:26 UTC
A sinkhole has appeared at Inskip Point beach, about three years after one appeared near the same spot
A large chunk of a popular Queensland beach has sunk into the sea leaving people fearing for the worst.
It is the second time in three years a sinkhole has appeared at Inskip Point beach. In 2015 a car, caravan, a camper trailer and tents were swallowed by the sinkhole,ABC reported.
Double Island Point Fishing Charters operator Greg Pearce was heading out on a fishing charter on Monday morning when he noticed the part of the picturesque beach missing.
The sinkhole looked about 7.5m deep, he told Daily Mail Australia.
'Yesterday looked perfectly normal, people were sunbaking. This morning when I came out you could see there'd been a fair bit of erosion.'
'The whole beach, where the day before was dry land, was gone.'
Richard Davies Floodlist Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:09 UTC
At least 4 people have died in flash floods in northern Tunisia over the last few days.
Tunisia's Ministry of Interior said Nabeul Governorate was the worst affected area after torrential rain on 22 September. In a statement of 23 September, the Ministry said that one person was swept away by floods in Takilsa, another in Bir Bouregba and 2 people near Bou Argoub.
The Ministry of Interior said that 197 mm of rain fell in Nabeul on 22 September. Tunisia's Ministry of Agriculture reported a record-breaking 297 mm of rain fell in Béni Khalled in 24 hours to 23 September.
Roads, bridges and homes were damage and vehicles swept away by the flash flooding. Civil protection teams were required to pump water from over 150 flooded homes. At least 3 people were rescued by emergency services and around 30 were evacuated.
Manjeet Sehgal India Today Sun, 23 Sep 2018 12:41 UTC
Swollen waters from the Beas river swept away a tourist bus in Himachal Pradesh's Manali on Sunday. There was no one inside it.
The bus was parked at the Potato ground, which is sometimes used as a market.
The incident occurred on Sunday at 5 pm; water from the raging Beas river quickly eroded the ground under the bus. Locals said they had warned the bus staff about a possible calamity, but that they ignored the warning.
Another such incident took place at 11 am, when a truck was swept away after river water entered the parking premises.
No loss of life was reported in both of these accidents.
A volcano in Indonesia known as the "Child of Krakatoa" erupted over 50 times in a single day, according to meteorologists and geophysics experts.
Staff at MAGMA Indonesia (Multiplatform Application for Geohazard Mitigation and Assessment in Indonesia) noted in a Sept. 23 statement that Mount Anak Krakatau, or "Child of Krakatoa," erupted 56 times on Sept. 22, spewing lava and ejecting dark smoke.
"Crater smoke is thin white to gray, with a thin to thick intensity, reaching a height of 1000 meters (3280 ft). A total of 56 eruptions with a height of 200-300 m (656-985 ft) have been observed, along with black smoke. Night-time footage from CCTV showed lava flares and incandescent flow."
Thunderous sounds and weak tremors accompanied the eruption, MAGMA Indonesia stated, adding that tourists and other people were prohibited from approaching the crater within a 2 km (1.2 miles) radius.
Comment: Details of the 2015 incident: Enormous sinkhole swallows portion of beach and campsite in Queensland, Australia