Southeast Asia Floods Kill Hundreds In Another Big Flood Megadisaster

Image of the flooding in Indonesia via Reuters. 

 Deadly floods have encompassed much of Southeast Asia recently, leading to at least 450 deaths, and widespread destruction. 

It's another big event as what is amounting to the 2025 The Year Of The Flood.

As CBC reports:

"Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been stricken by cyclone-fueled torrential rain for a week, with a rare tropical storm forming in the Malacca Straight.

Another 46 people were killed by a cyclone in the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka, authorities said"

The Malacca straight is a narrow band of water between Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. 

In Sumatra, 174 people had been confirmed dead as of Friday morning, and 79 others were reported missing. The rain has stopped there, but thousands of families are displaced, the CBC report said. 

In Thailand, 145 people have been reported dead and 3.5 million people have been affected by the flooding. 

In southern and eastern Sri Lanka, a separate tropical storm caused those 56 deaths, mostly in rain-triggered landslides. Twenty-five of the deaths were due to landslides in the mountainous tea growing region of central Sri Lanka, Al Jazeera reported. 

In Vietnam, at least 91 people died in flooding there, as lemonde.fr  reported. The bad weather began on November 16 and continued for more than a week. While some of the water has receded. more rain is heading in. Ominously, a new tropical depression has formed near Vietnam, and that threatens to bring new downpours.  

Southeast Asia is nearing the end of its annual monsoon season.  Before this storm, everything was soggy and wet, and rivers were running high from previous downpours and floods. 

Monsoon season can be destructive any year, but climate change is probably giving things a tragic boost.  With climate change, rainfall is often heavier than it otherwise would be had global temperatures not warmed.  

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News images of flooding Thailand. Click on this link to view, or if you see the image below, click on that. 

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