Sources: BBC
A record high temperature of 40.3 C is reported at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, and a record overnight minimum temperature of 25.9 C is reported at Emley Moor transmitting station in West Yorkshire. 2022-07-19
Five people are killed by flash flooding occurs in parts of the U.S. states of Alabama and Tennessee, with as much as 13 inches of rain falling in some areas. 2021-10-8
Flash flooding continues for the fourth day in Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, killing several more people and bringing the death toll to 113. 2021-08-1
Twenty-nine men are charged with the sexual exploitation and rape of a teenage girl over a seven-year period in Calderdale and Bradford, West Yorkshire, between 2003 and 2010. 2021-05-12
A record-setting rainstorm causes flash flooding in Palermo, Italy. The meter of water turns streets into rivers and traps motorists in their cars. Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando says this "water bomb" dropped as much rain in two hours as the Sicilian capital gets in a full year. Two people are reported drowned; that has not been confirmed. 2020-07-15
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains kill at least seven people and leave 12 others missing in northern Vietnam. 2018-06-25
Flash floods on the outskirts of the Greek capital Athens kill at least 16 people and injure dozens more after a severe thunderstorm. 2017-11-15
At least ten people die after heavy rains trigger flash floods in Malaga, Almeria and Murcia, southern Spain. 2012-09-29
The death toll from flash floods on the Seti River in Nepal reaches 17 with another 47 people missing and presumed dead. 2012-05-7
The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia's West Papua province rises to 97 with dozens of people missing. 2010-10-7