Post Reply - Climate

   DJ, Heavy rain & storm -in itself- is NOT new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_European_windstorm_season#Storm_Boris  or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_European_windstorm_season#Storm_Boris ;
Parts of the Czech Republic particularly near Vienna are under a red rain warning where extreme impacts from rainfall such as flooding, flash floods and landslides are likely. This is also the same for south-west Poland.^[18] On September 14, 2024, red alerts, indicating "intense meteorological phenomena", were issued in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia.^[19]

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lO81y0vFvs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lO81y0vFvs DW;
Central Europe in grips of worst flooding in decades | DW News

DJ, some factors;
-More people living in areas at risk of flooding...So compared to other extreme weather events in the last decades more people/houses/bussinesses at risk
-But also the amount of rain/snow (for this time of year) is unprecedented...A few days ago extreme drought-30C+-wildfires...gave way to extreme rain and cold weather...

Very likely already 10+ people killed. Most of the damage-from SE Germany to Romania-however will come in the coming days...

Rivers with extreme level of water still have to come together...Inn ends up in Danube...both allready at record levels...so the water may have no place to go...

Damage to infra-structure, economy, could be "extreme"...