Sudden and intense bursts of extreme rainfall are causing devastation across mountainous parts of South Asia, triggering ...

By a widely accepted definition, a cloudburst means more than 100 mm of rainfall in one hour, over a small area.

On Aug. 5, a flash flood devastated much of the Himalayan village of Dharali in India’s Uttarakhand state. As of Aug. 17, six ...

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, ...

A landslide-induced lake outburst triggered a chain reaction among several small lakes, resulting in a massive flash flood ...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a meeting with the officials at the disaster control room of Uttarkashi ...

A catastrophic mudslide swept away an entire village in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, triggered by a ...

Thirteen Nepalese nationals from Jajarkot district's Kushe Rural Municipality are missing following flash floods in ...

Rescuers were scouring a devastated Himalayan village in northern India to find dozens of missing people, a day after flash ...

At least 11 Indian Army personnel remain unaccounted for after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst struck in the Harsil ...

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 ...

A flash flood swept through a village in the Himalayas in northern India on Tuesday. At least 50 people are missing and four ...