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On 11 June, a flood warning of danger level 5 was issued for the Untersee, making it the highest of all danger levels (very high danger). [5] On 13 June, the flood levels at Upper Lake and Lower Lake of Lake Constance were each at level 4; after a temporary easing, the water levels rose again during the storm on 21 June 2024.
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The rockslide debris also dammed the Mattervispa river, a problem that was again compounded by the second event. Work digging through the blockage was begun immediately, but heavy rain and snow melt eventually resulted in flooding of a portion of the town of Randa upstream. A channel was eventually cut and the water receded.
Northern California sees a surge of rain and snow as an atmospheric river arrives. Heavy rain is expected to pour down, potentially leading to flooding, while the Sierra Nevada mountains see ...
Zermatt (German: [tsɛʁˈmat] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German:) is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
The airport has cancelled only one flight so far today, according to FlightAware. Meanwhile, 45 per cent of departing flights were cancelled yesterday, alongside 51 per cent of arriving flights.
The 2024 Central European floods were a series of floods caused by a record heavy rainfall generated by Storm Boris, an extremely humid Genoa low. The flooding began in Austria and the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and then onwards to Germany and Hungary. As of 28 September 2024, 27 fatalities have been reported.
Past floods have been deadly and have resulted in enormous property damage. Towns and villages in steep, narrow valleys that are downstream from glacial lakes are at the greatest risk. In 1892 a GLOF released some 200,000 m 3 (260,000 cu yd) of water from the lake of the Tête Rousse Glacier , resulting in the deaths of 200 people in the French ...