(Click on images for larger view.)Rising waters flooded parts of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, in March 2012, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. On March 15, evacuation orders were lifted for the northern Victoria town of Nathal...

(Above: Cherlaine Cook sent this photo in of a flooded road in Durban)Yesterday's heavy rainfall has wreaked havoc in parts of the province. Flood damage has been reported in Umhlanga, Durban, Westville and on the South Coast.Numerous accidents have be...

(Click on image for larger view.)Dust blew off the coasts of Morocco and Western Sahara in early March 2012. Heading northwest, the dust blew over the eastern Canary Islands, especially Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spect...

090300Z POSITION NEAR 29.5S 39.0E.TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S (IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 415 NM EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, HAS TRACKED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 04 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. THE CURRENT POSITION IS BASED ON A 082220Z TRMM ...

Nastasya Tay | 3 Hour(s) AgoThe South African Weather Service said it would continue to monitor tropical storm Irina along South Africa’s eastern coast.The storm reportedly left scores of homes damaged and more than 70 dead across the region, includi...

A Durban NGO has its hands full following this weekend's storm. AbaKrestu Foundation has seen an influx of street children to its shelter in the city centre.Spokesperson Larry Crampton says nearly 100 children came to the foundation, with nothing but w...

Footage of Durban's beachfront during tropical cyclone Irina on Sunday 4th March 2012. Filmed by Anton Herrington, Tekweni TV Productions. Go to www.satvchannel.com for other videos on South Africa.- South Africa TV Channel

050300Z POSITION NEAR 29.7S 34.7E.TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S, (IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 230 NM SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, HAS TRACKED SOUTHWARD AT 10 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS TC 14S BECOMI...

Tropical storm Irina has unleashed torrential rain over parts of Kwazulu Natal, flooding roads and homes. Massive waves have also been battering the KZN coastline.East Coasters have sent these photos in, documenting some of the flooding and damage done...

Tropical Storm Irina: This is a video clip of our local beach Alkantstrand in Richards Bay 3 March 2012 13h30 SAST - Video by Debbie Smith

A house collapsed on a woman breaking both her legs in Jozini in the Nyawushadi area on Sunday morning, after floods hit northern KwaZulu-Natal.Co-operative governance spokesman Vernon Mchunu said emergency services were negotiating through mud and dir...

(Click on images for larger view.)031500Z POSITION NEAR 25.7S 35.0E.TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S (IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 150 NM EAST OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, HAS TRACKED WESTWARD AT 13 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE I...

At 02:00SAST, Moderate Tropical Storm IRINA was located at 25.5S and 37.6E (in the vicinity ofInhambane, Mozambique) and is moving in a west-south-west direction at 13knots. The storm retains Moderate Tropical Storm status until Tuesday, 6 March 2012.0...

290300Z POSITION NEAR 16.3S 43.3E. TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S,(IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 270 NM NORTHWEST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED WESTWARD AT 01 KNOT OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS TC 14S IS OVERC...

(Click on image for larger view.)A combination of melting snow, overflowing rivers, and heavy rains flooded parts of northwestern Tunisia in late February 2012. The Tunisian Army evacuated residents of multiple towns in the region of Tunis, Tunisia Liv...

The Tropical Disturbance in Northern Madagascar proof to be a menace again. Got these photos from site just now, it is raining heavily in Taomisina at the moment. (27 February 2012) - Julius Pistorius

Image: NOAA19 13h15 SAST  (Nic Cronje, Nelspruit) Click on image for larger view.Image: NOAA15 16H28 SAST (Ben Engelbrecht, Dundee) Click on image for larger view.WTXS21 PGTW 270130MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//SUBJ/TROPI...

Image: Bhagti, 20, displaced for over three months by flooding, carries her newborn baby boy Heera Lal near the roadside tent where she has taken refuge in the Sanghar district of Pakistan's Sindh province November 27, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar SoomroBy Nit...

WTXS21 PGTW 260130MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION ALERT// RMKS/ 1. FORMATION OF A SIGNIFICANT TROPICAL CYCLONE IS POSSIBLE WITHIN 200 NM EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 13.7S 53.3E TO 14.9S 44.0E ...

(Click on image for larger view.)Dust plumes stretched southward over the Arabian Sea in late February 2012. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image on February 22, 2012. Th...

NASA image acquired February 24, 2012The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Italy at 12:35 UTC on February 24, 2012. Looking like a giant boot covered with snow.Instrume...

Image: Avcom (Click on image for larger view.)Between 21:00 and 22:00 on the 22nd of February 2012 a storm with severe gusting winds created significant damage to aircraft and hangars at the Grand Central Airport in Midrand. During the early hours on ...

(Click on image for larger view.)Although rain rarely falls in the extremely arid Sahara Desert, the skies are not always sunny. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this spectacular image o...

(Click on image for larger view.)From February 17 to 19, a severe storm blasted the Lebanese coast with 100-kilometer (60-mile) winds and dropped as much as 2 meters (7 feet) of snow on parts of the country, news sources said. Temperatures dropped to n...

Each year, on 23 March, the World Meteorological Organization, its 189 Members and the worldwide meteorological community celebrate World Meteorological Day around a chosen theme. This day commemorates the entry into force, on that date in 1950, of the...

200300Z POSITION NEAR 26.4S 53.7E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 455 NM SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED EASTWARD AT 14 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED INFRARED (IR) SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS THE OR...

Giovanna has once again changed direction and also increased in intensity. Giovanna is now a Cat. 2 storm. Like I indicated before, Giovanna is one of the weirdest storms I have observed in the South Indian Ocean. What will happen in the next 12 hou...

190300Z POSITION NEAR 25.9S 47.7E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 430 NM SOUTH OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AT 12 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS DEEP CONVEC...

Image:  Damages post-Giovanna (Click on image for larger view.)I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES· Giovanna made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar at 2.00 a.m. on 14 February 2012 as a category 4 tropical cyclone and exited the western coast ...

Image: NOAA18 01H08 SAST (Nic Cronje, Nelspruit) Click on image for larger view.180300Z POSITION NEAR 26.4S 43.5E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 495 NM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED SOUTHEASTWARD AT 03...