A woman shelters from heavy rainfall with an umbrella as she walks along the “Promenade des Anglais” on the French riviera city of Nice, on September 21, 2023 (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





Residents wade through floodwaters during heavy rain in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, September 8, 2023. Hong Kong's heaviest rainstorm since records began in 1884 flooded the financial hub's streets and sent torrents of water rushing through subway stations, bringing much of the city to a standstill and forcing the stock market to scrap trading on Friday. (Photo by Lam Yik/Bloomberg)





A woman walks along a flooded street, as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia bring flooding across mid-Atlantic and Northeast, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., September 29, 2023. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)





A man stands near a destroyed road after torrential rains destroyed the infrastructure and caused flooding in the area, near Volos, Greece on September 6, 2023. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)





A resident sits in the shade of an umbrella near a mosque and buildings damaged by the September 8 earthquake in the village of Moulay Brahim in al-Haouz province in the High Atlas mountains of central Morocco on September 11, 2023. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the Atlas mountains southwest of the tourist centre of Marrakesh. It killed almost 2,500 people and injured a similar number, according to the latest official toll issued on September 11. (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)





A pedestrian waits for a bus on a flooded street following heavy rainstorms in Hong Kong, Friday, September 8, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A woman walks in Buenaventura, Colombia, Thursday, August 17, 2023. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





Spectators shelter from a cloudburst before the delayed start of the second one-day cricket international between England and New Zealand at Southampton, Britain on September 10, 2023. England levelled the series with a 79-run win. (Photo by Paul Childs/Action Images via Reuters)





Malcolm Jacques and Clive Barber stand with a Morris Mini mk2 car from 1968 as their wives Carol and Judith shelter from the rain inside, at the Pistons and Paws classic car show in Tenterden, Britain on September 17, 2023. (Photo by Kevin Coombs/Reuters)





People walk on a flooded street during a heavy rain storm in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura for The Washington Post)





A man walks past a flooded area during heavy rain in Hong Kong, China on September 8, 2023. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Pedestrians walk along a flooded sidewalk, Friday, September 29, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A potent rush-hour rainstorm has swamped the New York metropolitan area. The deluge Friday shut down swaths of the subway system, flooded some streets and highways, and cut off access to at least one terminal at LaGuardia Airport. (Photo by Jake Offenhartz/AP Photo)





People brave the first rain and wind of Storm Agnes as it approaches the UK on September 27, 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)





Cars sit at a standstill at the FDR Drive after heavy rains as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia bring flooding across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, in New York City, U.S., September 29, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)





Dolores and Michael Healy from Waterfall enjoy the good weather at Garrettstown, Co Cork, Ireland on September 3, 2023. (Photo by David Creedon/The Irish Times)