Flood — Wikipedia views
1.28K views/day
-0.62% day
A count of how many people open Wikipedia's article on floods each day. It rises when water is the story somewhere — a burst glacial lake, a cloudburst, a river over its banks — and it is a rough gauge of how far a disaster has travelled beyond the places it hit.
Sep 4 · 1,280 views/day · +90.8% vs the window’s open
the numbers30
| when | value | change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 6 | 671 views/day | |
| Aug 7 | 621 views/day | −7.5% |
| Aug 8 | 526 views/day | −15.3% |
| Aug 9low | 522 views/day | −0.8% |
| Aug 10 | 777 views/day | +48.9% |
| Aug 11 | 794 views/day | +2.2% |
| Aug 12 | 886 views/day | +11.6% |
| Aug 13 | 1,220 views/day | +37.7% |
| Aug 14 | 827 views/day | −32.2% |
| Aug 15 | 640 views/day | −22.6% |
| Aug 16 | 711 views/day | +11.1% |
| Aug 17 | 863 views/day | +21.4% |
| Aug 18 | 829 views/day | −3.9% |
| Aug 19 | 760 views/day | −8.3% |
| Aug 20 | 1,029 views/day | +35.4% |
| Aug 21 | 792 views/day | −23.0% |
| Aug 22 | 640 views/day | −19.2% |
| Aug 23 | 816 views/day | +27.5% |
| Aug 24 | 863 views/day | +5.8% |
| Aug 25 | 827 views/day | −4.2% |
| Aug 26 | 1,193 views/day | +44.3% |
| Aug 27 | 1,501 views/day | +25.8% |
| Aug 28high | 1,645 views/day | +9.6% |
| Aug 29 | 1,212 views/day | −26.3% |
| Aug 30 | 1,185 views/day | −2.2% |
| Aug 31 | 1,215 views/day | +2.5% |
| Sep 1 | 1,102 views/day | −9.3% |
| Sep 2 | 1,159 views/day | +5.2% |
| Sep 3 | 1,288 views/day | +11.1% |
| Sep 4latest | 1,280 views/day | −0.6% |
Lately
Nepal drove the attention: a collapse of ice and rock, not rain, sent a flood down a valley near the China border, killing more than 5,000 people and closing the trade corridor to China, with 4,500 still missing as Kathmandu reopened trekking trails. A flash flood in the Grand Canyon killed two hikers, and the WMO said El Niño may reach its strongest in decades.