Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms

In the South Indian Ocean:

Tropical cyclone Edilson is located approximately 375 nm south-southwest of port Louis, Mauritius, is tracking southwestward at 18 knots.

New Tropical cyclone (tc) 14s (fourteen) forms approximately 814 nm east-northeast of port Louis, Mauritius, is tracking southward at 08 knots. The TC is forecast to turn southward then southwestward. Improving upper-level conditions, warm sea surface temperatures are conducive for further development, allowing the wind intensity to peak at 60 knots.

NewsBytes:

UK - Even by Britain’s rain-soaked standards it has been a wet winter. For several parts of the country, it was the wettest January on record, and it is still raining. Large swaths of southern England remain on flood alert. The village of Muchelney has become an island. Cars stand idle; locals canoe across the flooded plain or take a police boat down the road-turned-river connecting them to what they now call the “mainland.”

UK - Another powerful Atlantic storm is expected to cause flooding in areas that have so far largely escaped the worst of the deluges and will cause yet more misery for those who have already been forced out of their homes or are continuing to fight a desperate battle to keep the rising water at bay.

BOLIVIA - Torrential rain and floods in Bolivia have killed 38 people and left many homeless, said a government spokesperson on Thursday, as forecasters predicted more heavy rainfall with the north of the Andean country again likely to be the worst affected.