Severe weather across parts of Asia has claimed nearly 1,000 lives, with Indonesia and Sri Lanka among the worst affected by heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides. Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand have also received significantly above-normal rains in the past week, according to data from the US Climate Prediction Centre. In Sri Lanka, fatalities from heavy flooding rose sharply on Sunday, almost doubling to 334 dead and another 370 missing. The storm’s passage has left Sri Lanka facing its “largest and most challenging natural disaster,” president Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in a national address Sunday night. It will likely bring more rains to central and northern-central Vietnam, which have already been pounded by storms and historic floods.

Source: The Irish Times December 01, 2025 08:52 UTC