São Paulo's summer death toll from rains reaches 19 as new storms loom

19 deaths recorded during summer rains in São Paulo state, including an 11-month-old child killed by a falling tree and an elderly man in a building collapse.

Every summer, the rains return to São Paulo — and with them, the quiet reckoning of lives lost not to any single catastrophe, but to the accumulated weight of water against aging walls, shallow roots, and vulnerable ground. Nineteen people have now died across the state since December, among them an eleven-month-old child and an elderly man, each taken by the structural failures that heavy rainfall exposes in a densely populated landscape. With a cold front and low-pressure system converging through the end of February, forecasters warn the season's toll is far from complete. The state's Opera

São Paulo's summer death toll from rains reaches 19 as new storms loom

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