Tag: cyclone

• Saturday, September 9th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  At least 46 people still missing in post-cyclone southeastern Brazil

  

  Brazilian authorities said Friday that at least 46 people were missing after a devastating cyclone hit the southeastern State of Rio Grande do Sul since early Monday, where already 41 casualties have been reported. The federal government also pledged R$ 800 (US$167) for each of the over 3,000 people who have lost their homes to the storm.

• Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  More rain forecast in southeastern Brazil as cyclone death toll rises

  

  Brazil's National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) said on Wednesday that more rain was to be expected in parts of the State of Rio Grande do Sul throughout the September 7 holiday as the death toll from the recent extratropical cyclone rose to 37 (including one victim in the neighboring State of Santa Catarina), Agência Brasil reported. Rio Grande do Sul's government was to declare a state of public calamity.

• Wednesday, September 6th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  Cyclone in southern Brazil causes death, floods and destruction

  

  Some twenty-one people have been killed as a consequence of the torrential rain and winds caused by a cyclone in southern Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul neighboring Uruguay and Argentina. Local authorities said it was the state's worst-ever weather disaster given the number of deaths so far and the thousands left homeless.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Uruguay braces for a “cyclone with unusual characteristics”, meteorologists forecast

  

  Although cyclones are rare in the area, Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) has issued a yellow warning regarding the possible arrival of a subtropical cyclone to the southern part of the country sometime Tuesday.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Cyclone in south Brazil causes death, flooding, power cuts and disruption in major port operations

  

  Windstorms and storms recorded this week in the south of Brazil caused deaths in Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul leaving a trail of destruction in the three states of the region, with fallen trees and power posts, flooded homes, lack of energy and road blocks.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Africa's cyclone Idai batters 1.7 million people: now outbreaks of cholera and malaria

  

  A week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Hundreds killed by cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

  

  Cyclone Idai has triggered a “massive disaster” in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN says. The region has been hit by widespread flooding and devastation affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.