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One person has died and thousands of others are under evacuation orders in Australia’s northeast after intense rain triggered dangerous flash floods that have inundated homes and businesses.

Similar sodden piles line the street. Ms Collins has lived in north Queensland her whole life and says the last week of flooding was the worst she's seen. On a bench, Ms Collins is attempting to ...

“A couple days ago we didn’t expect any of the rivers to flood.” The rain could have been even more impactful if Northern California hadn’t seen an abnormally dry January. The first of the ...

Following heavy snow in Oregon and a few reports of flooding in far Northern California, the FOX Forecast Center said a resurgence in moisture will expand the rain and mountain snow once ...

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Northern California bore the brunt of the impacts, with reports of landslides and flooding in urban and low-lying areas. Two people were reported dead in Sonoma County due to the flooding, ...

Floodwaters in Ingham are beginning to subside after the Herbert River rose beyond a 15.2m flood record set almost 60 years ago. Record-breaking rain has lashed north Queensland for days ...

Ingham, home to 4500 people north of Townsville, has been cut off for days as immense flooding peaked on Sunday and Monday. A woman died when an SES boat capsized on Sunday, and a 82-year-old ...

Flooding in Australia has inflicted "incredible" devastation on communities across northern Queensland, the state's premier has said, even though conditions are easing faster than predicted.

The Bureau's flood forecasting and warning service uses rainfall and streamflow observations, numerical weather predictions and hydrologic models to forecast and warn for possible flood events across ...

Redding has only received 0.63 inches – just 10% of its January average. A look at the flash flood threat in the West over the next three days. On Sunday, a man was stranded on an island in Clear ...