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VISNOVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) -At least four people died and thousands of homes were damaged by flooding in eastern Romania on Saturday, officials said, as surging river levels put authorities ...
Parts of northern and central Europe continued to grapple with flooding on Thursday after heavy rain. A barrier near the German city of Magdeburg was opened for the first time in a decade to ease ...
At least four people have died, thousands of homes have been damaged and hundreds have been evacuated from homes after flooding struck central and eastern Europe on Saturday
Heavy rain 1928: 1928 Thames flood: England: 14: meltwater + heavy rain + storm surge 1934: 1934 flood in Poland: Poland: 55: heavy rain 1944: Holmfirth Floods#1944: England: 3: Heavy rain 1947: 1947 Thames flood: England, Spain, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia [2] meltwater + heavy rain 1952: Lynmouth Flood: United Kingdom: 34: heavy rain 1953 ...
On Monday, heavy rainfall continued to pummel the region with red alerts, the highest-level warning, still in effect for portions of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia.
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.
An infant was killed by a falling tree due to heavy winds and rainfall at a park in Brussels on 9 July. [9] On 10 October, the Eau Rouge River, near the French border, overflowed due to heavy rains from Storm Kirk, leading to flooding. Around the Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France, the most rain was reported.
An analysis of a 2021 heavy rainfall event in Europe, in which more than 200 people were killed, found human-caused climate change had increased the likelihood and intensity of these events in the ...