Monsoons

Army soldiers and rescuers evacuate patients and medical staff from a flooded hospital following landslides and flash flooding amid monsoon season in Imphal, India, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald Sairem, File)

Climate change makes South Asia’s monsoon season more prone to floods, landslides and heavy rains

Each year from June to September, a series of heavy rains known as monsoons sweep through the Indian subcontinent, providing relief from heat, irrigating the country’s farms and replenishing its rivers.
 
As the monsoon cranks up in the southwestern U.S., a rainstorm moves across the plains near Rio Rancho, New Mexico, on July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Monsoon season brings the promise of rain for the arid southwestern US

 
Motorists drive through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rains, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

A week of heavy rains and floods across Pakistan kills 46 people including 13 family members

 
A member of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) distributes drinking water to a resident after heavy rains flooded the area around her home, in Guwahati, India, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo)

India’s monsoon floods kill at least 22 people in the country’s northeast

 

Floods kill 2 people and wreak havoc in Australia’s Queensland after monsoon rains

 

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Days of monsoon rains and flash floods kill at least 72 in Pakistan

 

Heavy monsoons trigger severe flooding in parts of southern India

 
Villagers wade through flood area caused by heavy monsoon rains near Sohbat Pur, an area of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo)

Heavy rains hit Pakistan’s south as this monsoon’s death toll rises to 209

 

Death toll rises to 156 as weeks of heavy monsoon rains wreak havoc in Pakistan

 
Clouds dissipate after a rainstorm during the monsoon season Friday, June 28, 2024, in Monument Valley, Ariz. Thunderstorms are hopscotching around the Southwestern U.S., bringing much-needed moisture to a region where every drop counts. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

It’s a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief, and flooding, to the southwestern US

 

It’s a fine line as the summer rainy season brings relief — and flooding — to the southwestern US

 
A crew inspects the damage to a part of a departure terminal canopy at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport that collapsed in heavy pre-monsoon rains in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo)

Days after heatwave, intense rain causes roof collapse at New Delhi airport, killing 1 person

 
FILE - A farmer walks as he works in a paddy field on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, July 30, 2021. Human-caused climate change is making rainfall more unpredictable and erratic, which makes it difficult for farmers to plant, grow and harvest crops on their rain-fed fields. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

Climate change makes India’s monsoons erratic. Can farmers still find a way to prosper?

 
Mohamed Yahya, the newly appointed Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, June 13, 2024. A top U.N. official has warned that an estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan are likely to be affected by the upcoming above-normal monsoon rains. (AP Photo/Munir Ahmed)

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan will affect 200,000 people, a top UN official warns

 
Local residents wade through a flooded road near Shwe Maw Taw pagoda in Bago, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 10,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities, officials and state-run media said Monday. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Heavy flooding in southern Myanmar displaces more than 14,000 people

 
FILE - A sign displays an unofficial temperature as jets taxi at Sky Harbor International Airport at dusk, July 12, 2023, in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona’s most populous city, is in the record books again for notching a record for dry heat. The National Weather Service said Sunday, Oct 1, that the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to Sept. 30. That’s the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Arizona’s biggest city has driest monsoon season since weather service began record-keeping in 1895

 
FILE - A woman holds the hand of her relative as family members of people trapped under rubble wail after a landslide washed away houses in Raigad district, western Maharashtra state, India, July 20, 2023. The devastation of this year's monsoon season in India, which runs from June to September, has been significant. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

India’s devastating monsoon season is a sign of things to come, as climate and poor planning combine

 
Rescuers search the debris for survivors after a landslide following heavy rainfall in Shimla, India, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Days of relentless rain in India’s Himalayan region have killed more than 70 people this week as a heavy monsoon triggered landslides and flash floods that have submerged roads, washed away buildings and left residents scrambling for safety. AP Photo/Pradeep Kumar)

Heavy rain and landslides have killed at least 72 people this week in an Indian Himalayan state

 
Volunteers push a woman with her belongings on inner-tube along a flooded road in Bago, Myanmar, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (AP Photo)

Floods triggered by monsoon rains in Myanmar have killed 5 people, displaced 60,000 since mid-July

 

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A man overlooks downtown Phoenix at sunset atop South Mountain, Sunday, July 30, 2023. Phoenix hit its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius). The National Weather Service says the temperature climbed to a high of 111 degrees Fahrenheit before the day was through. Some slight relief may be on the way as seasonal thunderstorms could drop temperatures in Phoenix on Monday and Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Phoenix has ended 31-day streak of highs at or above 110 degrees as rains ease a Southwest heat wave

 
FILE - Tony Berastegui Jr., right, and his sister Giselle Berastegui drink water, Monday, July 17, 2023, in Phoenix. A historic heat wave that turned the Southwest into a blast furnace throughout July is beginning to abate with the late arrival of the monsoon rains. Forecasters expect that by Monday, July 31, at the latest, people in metro Phoenix will begin seeing high temperatures under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

30 days over 110 F in Phoenix. But expected monsoon rains could cool historically hot Southwest

 
A jet takes flight as heat ripples radiate from the runway, Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at Sky Harbor International Airport, in Phoenix. Phoenix this month shattered its record for consecutive days in which the temperature reached at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius), standing at 26 days and counting as of Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Suffocating heat wave in metro Phoenix starts easing after first major monsoon storm of the season

 

Homes and farms in India still flooded by swollen river

 
FILE - A digital billboard displays an unofficial temperature, July 17, 2023, in downtown Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Phoenix could get a mild break from the extreme heat, as record spell nears the 30-day mark

 
CORRECTS LOCATION TO HYDERABAD NOT KARACHI AND BYLINE TO PERVEZ MASIH Motorcyclists and cars drive through a flooded road caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Landslides block key roads in northern Pakistan, as the death toll from monthlong rains rises to 133

 
Relatives carry the body of a man killed after a wall collapse due to monsoon rains into an ambulance at PIMS hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Multiple workers were killed early Wednesday after a portion of the outer wall of a sprawling compound collapsed after being weakened by rains near an under-construction bridge on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, police and rescue officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

11 dead after a wall collapses near an under-construction bridge in Pakistan during monsoon rains

 

Monsoon season swamps New Delhi

 

Monsoon season swamps New Dehli

 
People evacuated from the flood plains of the river Yamuna rest in makeshift tents along a street in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Residential areas close to the river were flooded, submerging roads, cars and homes, leading to the evacuation of thousands of people from low-lying areas in the country's capital city. More than 100 people were killed this week after record monsoon rains led to massive waterlogging, road caves-in, collapsed homes and gridlocked traffic, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Record monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people in northern India over two weeks

 

Lightning strikes kill 10 as pre-monsoon rains lash Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province

 
Villagers salvage belongings from their flood-damaged houses in Bali village, west of Guwahati, India, Friday, June 23, 2023. Tens of thousands of people have moved to relief camps with one person swept to death by flood waters caused by heavy monsoon rains battering swathes of villages in India’s remote northeast this week, a government relief agency said on Friday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Flooding displaces tens of thousands and kills 1 as heavy monsoon rains batter Indian villages

 

Floods displace thousands of people in Myanmar