Satellite images from Maxar Technologies have shown the devastation floods caused by Mediterranean Storm Daniel have wreaked on eastern Libya, in particular the city of Derna. A neighbourhood of the city is shown here on July 1.
Over 5300 people have been killed in the floods so far.
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And this is the same neighbourhood on September 13, after two damns above the city collapsed, flooding the streets.
The death toll from the floods has topped 5000. Here is a port area of Derna pictured in July.
And the same ravaged area on September 13.
A coastal railway in Derna in July.
As much as a quarter of the city has disappeared, emergency officials said.
Here the railway has been all but swept away.
Waves rose as high as seven metres, Yann Fridez, head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Libya, told broadcaster France24.
A July 1 close-up on Derna's port facilities.
A spokesman for the eastern Libyan interior ministry put the death tally in Derna at more than 5,300, according to the state-run news agency.
The shattered port post-flood.
The number of deaths is likely to increase since teams are still collecting bodies.
At least 9000 people are missing, but that number could drop as communications are restored.
A Derna neighbourhood on July 1, showing bridges over a river.
This image shows how much the river burst its banks, breaking both bridges to hamper rescue efforts.
A coastal roadway in Derna.
At least 30,000 people in Derna were displaced by the flooding, the UN's International Organisation for Migration said.
An unusual late-summer storm turned the week-long counterculture fest of Burning Man into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert in the US.
But some revellers said that their spirits remained unbroken.
Organisers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported.
Officials provided no details of the fatality.
The annual gathering in the Black Rock Desert about 177 kilometres north of Reno attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists for a mix of wilderness camping and avant-garde performances.
Disruptions are part of the event's recent history: organisers had to temporarily close entrances to the festival in 2018 due to dust storms, and the event was twice canceled altogether during the pandemic.
More than 13mm of rain fell on the site on Friday, disrupting this year's festival.
Officials said on the weekend they didn't yet know when the roads would "be dry enough for RVs or vehicles to navigate safely," but they were hopeful vehicles could depart by late Monday local time if weather conditions improved.
With barely time to take a breath between, Hurricane Idalia hammered Florida on the US' east coast, hard on the heels of Tropical Storm Hilary in the country's west, including at Horseshoe Beach, pictured here.
Images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show an aerial view of the deadly storm's impact.
Streets are seen covered with mud and debris in Suwannee, Florida.
Hurricane Idalia's aftermath in, Steinhatchee, Florida.
As many as a half-million customers were without power at one point in Florida and Georgia as the storm ripped down utility poles.
The clean-up is underway in Dekle Beach.
One man has been confirmed dead in the storm in Georgia, after he was hit by a falling tree.
This combination of satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows Frank Sinatra Drive in Mirage, California, US, on April 15, 2023.