WEATHER – Very poor weather. Heavy rainfall began this Thursday, September 12 in Central Europe and is expected to continue this weekend, raising fears of serious flooding in several countries. Red alerts have been issued in southern Germany, western and eastern Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic and southern Poland.
Rains, floods… Lourdes flooded and road collapsed in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 4 departments on alert
“Some models go up to 300 to 400 mm in a few days between Austria and the Czech Republic!”notes meteorologist Guillaume Séchet on X (ex-Twitter). “Major flooding is to be feared”he says. These figures are indeed impressive: this means that we are expecting up to 400 litres of water per square metre in some places. For comparison, this amount is equivalent to what falls in Paris in six to eight months.
The rains are causing fears of major flooding, particularly in mountainous areas. Water will flow down the slopes of the Polish, Austrian and Slovak mountain ranges, causing rivers to overflow and threatening towns downstream. Strong winds associated with the rainfall could also cause damage and power outages.
“All the elements point to a major weather disaster this weekend over an incredibly large area from Poland to Croatia across 7 countries,” This is what agrometeorologist Serge Zaka notes. “The potential agricultural damage is vast: corn, sunflowers, vines, arboriculture, sorghum, flooded livestock buildings (…) and risks being incredibly extensive in the low agricultural plains and reliefs from Prague to Bratislava via Vienna”lists the specialist.
The meteorological phenomenon causing these rains is a cold drop, a mass of cool air isolated in a warmer atmosphere. This phenomenon causes intense precipitation and a more or less violent drop in temperatures. This is precisely what is happening this week in France.
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