After Tuesday's SoCal storm that brought heavy downpour, officials said it was the wettest day of the year.
"That was more rain than was received in nearly the previous seven months," according to a statement by the National Weather Service.
The storm was kicked off by moisture from former Hurricane Linda.
Record rainfall totals hit SoCal including 2.39 inches in downtown LA which shattered the 1968 record, according to the National Weather Service.
Comment: Record rainfall, but still California, a vitally important food producing region, is still experiencing it's worst drought in 500 years. In the event of economic or environmental catastrophe, perhaps we will see 'floods' of desperate migrants there in the near future?
Thailand has declared Chon Buri, which includes the popular tourist resort of Pattaya, a disaster zone after it was hit by flash floods this week.
Torrential rain and gusty winds hit the Thai resort for many hours on Wednesday night and Thursday, causing damage to property and chaos to road users, local media said on Friday (Sep 18).
The heavy downpour was a result of a tropical storm Vamco which caused two-metre-high waves and high winds in the Gulf of Thailand.
Pattaya Mayor Ittipol Khunpluem said the disaster declaration would help accommodate state relief and assistance to the area despite the fact that most of the flooding had subsided, the Bangkok Post reported on Friday.
Flash floods have killed at least five people in southwest China and 11 others are missing, state media reported.
The floods were triggered by storms in Huaping county near Lijiang in Yunnan province on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
Over 28cm of rain fell during that period, officials said.
Seventy-two homes collapsed during the flooding and nearly 250 were damaged.
Major flooding brought by torrential rain hit parts of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, yesterday 16 September, 2015.
In a statement issued late yesterday, the government confirmed that 4 people have been killed in the floods and many left injured The situation is considered so dire that the government have requested all but essential workers to remain at home today, 17 September 2015.
Homeless
The government said that many have been left homeless by the flooding. The government said that Siaka Stevens stadium, Attouga stadium and the open field at ferry junction have been prepared as emergency settlements for those displaced by the floods.
The flooding has devastated several settlements around the capital. Flood water is said to be over 1 metre deep in many places. Many local observers in Freetown are saying this is some of the is the worst destruction and devastation they have seen in recent years.
One of the worst hit areas is Kroo Bay. Via his Twitter feed, Sierra Leone journalist, Umaru Fofana, said:
"Terrible what I just saw. Just emerged from Kroo Bay - Sierra Leone's largest slum - which is completely inundated".
The video below was posted on Facebook yesterday and is thought to be of the devastation brought by the flooding in Kroo Bay, Sierra Leone.
Twelve adults and children died after their car was picked up by the flood waters and pushed into a ravine. Three survived and one is still missing
A van and SUV carrying three adults and 13 children sat near the widening stream, waiting for the water to recede so they could cross back to their homes in a small, polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border.
But in an instant, flood waters engulfed them and the two vehicles were sucked downstream, bobbing in the turbulent water before they tumbled over an embankment. Only three children survived. Twelve of the 16 are dead. One is still missing.
Virginia Black watched in horror from her house as she made a video of the once-in-a-century flash flood.
'There goes the van! Oh my god!' says Black in a high-pitched voice. 'It went over the thing. Oh dear.'
Downstream, people rushed to where the vehicles came to a stop. One witness described a gruesome scene of body parts, twisted metal and a young boy who somehow survived.
'The little boy was standing there,' Yvonne Holm recalled. 'He said, "Are you guys going to help me?"'
Heavy rain swept across many parts of northern Italy yesterday, Monday 14 September, causing flooding and landslides. A regional meteorological agency says that some areas of Emilia-Romagna saw over 300 mm of rain fall in just 4 hours.
One man has died after his car was swept away by floods in Ponte dell'Olio in Piacenza province, Emilia-Romagna, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Two other men, also in Piacenza province, are still missing. The worst affected villages and towns in the province include Farini, Pontedellolio, Ferriere, Bettola, Ottone and Corte Brugnatella.
Flooding was also reported in parts of Veneto region, where a motorway was blocked by landslides, and also in the port city of Genoa and other areas of the Liguria region.
Yoko Wakatsuki, Will Ripley and Katie Hunt CNN Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:55 UTC
Joso, Japan
Japan advised almost 3 million people to evacuate after heavy flooding killed seven people and left at least 15 missing in the eastern region of the country.
At least 27 people have been injured across 10 prefectures since floods inundated parts of eastern Japan after a tropical storm, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.
Rescue operations continued in the city of Joso, one of the worst-hit areas, although floodwaters are receding, it added.
A total of 2.8 million have been advised to evacuate, the agency said.
Joso, Japan
In Miyagi prefecture, there were two deaths, including a woman found dead in her floating car. In Tochigi prefecture, north of the capital, Tokyo, three deaths were reported. Two more bodies were later found in Ibaraki prefecture, according to police.
Comment: Where do almost 3 million people go, exactly?
Heavy flooding from Tropical Typhoon Etau has killed three people and injured 27 others across Japan. Local officials issued a third emergency weather warning Friday as the torrential rains moved north.
Twenty-six other individuals still remain missing, after hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes.
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Heavy torrential rains and massive flooding have turned the streets of a Spanish town into fast-flowing rivers that literary washed away cars and even large trucks, a YouTube video shows.
The small town of Adra, in the Almeria province of southern Spain, has been the worst affected by the rains. Its streets have been turned into fast-flowing currents of water that swept away cars and trucks.
Heavy rainfall in central Sweden on Sunday has seen train and road traffic grinding to a halt and over 100 homes evacuated.
Weather agency SMHI issued 13 class-1 warnings for wet and windy weather on Sunday as storms spread eastwards across the country.
Stockholm county was specifically singled out, with the agency noting that it and several nearby counties could expect up to 50 mm of rainfall on Sunday.
The morning saw over 100 homes evacuated in Hallsberg, near Örebro in central Sweden, with emergency services noting that water levels inside some people's houses had reached "around a metre" in depth.
Pictures in Swedish media have shown people travelling down residential roads in canoes, or wading waist deep.
Train traffic between Hallsberg and Laxå ground to a halt too, leaving rail and road traffic between Gothenburg and Stockholm delayed.
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