Weather

At least 23 dead as heavy rains unleash floods in southeastern Brazil

Search and rescue workers are looking for more than 40 people who remain missing as towns reel from torrential rainfall.

Record-breaking snowstorm shuts schools, halts travel in Northeast

A worker with the Times Square Alliance sanitation crew shovels snow in Times Square in New York, US. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

More than 40 million people were under weather warnings in the northeastern US on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until Monday midday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighbouring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

The storm came just weeks after the region recovered from another devastating winter weather system that was linked to more than 100 deaths. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

Hannah and Astrid Grimskog play in Times Square during the snowstorm in New York. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

"I am sick of it. I don't want to see no more snow," Vincent Greer, a resident of Wildwood, New Jersey, said as he shovelled outside his building. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]

Pedestrians stop to take photos of Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during the snowstorm. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

The National Weather Service said snowfall would ebb overnight but warned that strong winds would still create blizzard conditions in some areas. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

Big cities, including New York and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, advertised dedicated warming centres for people caught outside in the cold. [Heather Khalifa/AP Photo]

A man carries an inflatable inner tube for snow sledging in Prospect Park in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]

Heavy rains, deadly floods hit southern Peru; thousands seek shelter

Torrential downpours cause deadly mudslides, while more than 700 districts across country declare states of emergency.

New York mayor orders citywide shutdown as snowstorm hits northeast US

The city’s entire traffic network is shut down except for emergency travel as a severe snowstorm hits northeast US.

French firefighters search for a man who disappeared in the Loire River.

French firefighters search for a 53-year-old man who disappeared in the Loire River after his boat capsized during flooding in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

A flooded road in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

Floodwater surrounds houses in Jusix, in the Lot-and-Garonne department of southwestern France. [Ed Jones/AFP]

Four departments in western France were placed under red alert for the risk of flooding. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

Officials expect the situation to worsen with the arrival of Storm Pedro, which is poised to batter swaths of Western Europe. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

National weather service Meteo-France said on Wednesday the country was experiencing its longest series of rainy days since measurements began in 1959. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]

A flooded house in Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, western France. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]

The new rainfall from Storm Pedro could “fuel the current floods”, said Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of flood alert service Vigicrues. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]