23. May 2025 | Floods, General, heavy rain, Recent Events
In recent days, torrential rainfall has affected large parts of Australia, particularly regions in New South Wales (NSW) and along the Mid North Coast. In some areas, up to 500 mm of rain fell within 24 hours, leading to severe flooding [1,2]. As a result of the...
19. May 2025 | Floods, Food Security, General, heavy rain, Recent Events
Unusually heavy rainfall in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires since May 16, 2025, has caused massive flooding in the agricultural region. Over the course of just three days, some areas recorded more than 400 millimeters of rain – with San Antonio de Areco...
28. Apr 2025 | General, Recent Events
On Monday, April 28, 2025, at around 12:30 p.m. local time, a massive power outage affected large parts of Spain, Portugal, and southern France. The Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica reported a sudden drop in electricity demand. In Portugal, the outage caused...
28. Mar 2025 | Allgemein, Earthquakes, Recent Events
On Friday, March 28, 2025, at 12:50 PM MMT (6:21 AM CET), a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar (United States Geological Survey USGS; Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences GFZ), with its epicenter near Mandalay in the central part of the country (The Guardian, 2025)....
19. Mar 2025 | Allgemein, Recent Events, Starkregen
In March 2025, the Italian region of Tuscany, particularly the province of Florence, was hit by severe storms. On 14 March, 70 liters of rain per square meter fell in Florence in just six hours – an amount that normally corresponds to the entire monthly average....
17. Mar 2025 | Allgemein, heavy rain, Recent Events
Bahía Blanca, a port city in Argentina, was hit by a devastating rainstorm that brought the equivalent of an entire year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours. The floods have claimed at least 16 lives, and more than a thousand people were forced to evacuate....
