How the world has dealt with extreme floods in 2019

Seen is a general view of a major intersection blocked in the flooded Townsville suburb of Idalia on February 04, 2019 in Townsville, Australia. The continued inundation forced authorities to open the floodgates on the swollen Ross River dam.

Residents use a boat to navigate floodwaters on February 15, 2019 in Guerneville, California. An atmospheric river, a narrow corridor of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere, brought heavy rains to Northern California, causing rivers to overflow and flood many areas around the Russian River.

This picture taken on March 7, 2019, shows residents commuting along a flooded road in Dayeuhkolot village in Bandung, West Java province. Some 6,000 homes were flooded in from the overflowing Citarum river, due to heavy rain in the area. 

Floodwater surrounds a farm on March 22, near Craig, Missouri. The Midwest states battled some of the worst floodings they have experienced in decades this year, as rain and snowmelt from the recent "bomb cyclone" inundated rivers and streams.

Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister, Luisa, 6, under plastic sheets as they protect themselves from rain at a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 23, 2019. The death toll in Mozambique climbed to 417 on March 23, after a cyclone pummelled swathes of the southern African country.

A man takes a photo near a bus crushed by a falling tree in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 9, 2019, as flash floods hit the city.

Schoolchildren play on melting ice at the climate change-affected Yupik Eskimo village of Napakiak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska on April 18, 2019. With recent unusually high temperatures, life in this remote villages has been affected causing eroded land, flooding and difficulties to access roads and to hunting.

People row a rubber boat on a flooded road caused by a rainstorm at the Hongqi town on May 27, in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province of China.

An aerial photo shows a submerged Hatay, Turkey, on January 18, 2019, as people are forced to use boats to escape.