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Flash floods in Yuzhong County, Gansu Province, China, killed at least 10 people and left 33 missing after up to half of the county’s average annual rainfall fell between August 7 and 8, 2025. Chinese President Xi Jinping urged local authorities to carry out full-scale rescue operations.
Tropical Storm Ivo brought heavy rainfall and severe flooding to parts of western and southern Mexico on August 7, 2025, causing widespread damage in Nayarit and Veracruz and injuring two people in Durango.
Phoenix, Arizona, reached 47.8°C (118°F) on August 7, 2025, setting the highest August temperature since records began in 1895. Other locations across the region also saw record highs, with Blythe, California, reaching 48.9°C (120°F).
Heavy monsoon rains across southern China, including Guangdong and Hong Kong, have triggered flooding, landslides, and vector-borne disease outbreaks, with at least two deaths and over 7 000 chikungunya cases reported as of August 7, 2025.
A heavy rain emergency was issued for Kirishima City, Kagoshima as record rainfall lashed Kyushu, dropping nearly 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in just 12 hours on August 8, 2025. At least two people were hospitalized in Aira City after a landslide triggered by the heavy rain caused a house to collapse.
Ongoing floods across New South Wales prompted emergency evacuations in areas from Narrabri to Wee Waa as the Narrabri Creek crossed major flood level on August 6, 2025.
Tropical Storm Ivo formed on August 6, 2025, off the Pacific coast of Mexico, bringing the threat of flash flooding to the Mexican states of Guerrero, Michoacán, and Colima. While the system is not expected to make landfall, it could strengthen into a hurricane later in the week.
At least two people died in flooding near Raleigh, Nash County, North Carolina, on August 6, 2025, raising the death toll from flooding across the Southeastern U.S. to three since the beginning of August.
413 pilgrims were rescued by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) after a cloudburst triggered flash floods along the Kinner Kailash Yatra route in Himachal Pradesh, India on August 6, 2025. At least 194 people were killed across Himachal Pradesh since the onset of the monsoon season in June.
An extreme rainfall event struck South Korea between August 3 and 4, 2025, triggering severe flooding across the southern regions of the country. Over 280 mm (11 inches) of rainfall was recorded in Muan in just 24 hours, with the hourly rainfall rates reaching over extreme 140 mm (6 inches) on August 4.
