Posted on 07/15/2021 10:23:36 AM PDT by deport
Berlin (CNN)At least 46 people have died due to severe flooding in western Europe, caused by what experts described as the heaviest rainfall in a century.
Up to 70 people are missing in Germany after flash floods swept across western and southern parts of the country, causing buildings to collapse, police said Thursday. Germany is worst hit with 40 people killed, while six people died in Belgium. Luxembourg and the Netherlands are also affected.
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It’s amazing some of the water marks for the Rhine River, for example.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMPGKV_High_Water_Marks_for_Neckar_River_Heidelberg_Germany
Scroll down a few pictures
Some serious water.
Other than trivia there does not seem to be a correlation.
Seems like Merkel is thinking to herself “b***h please stfu...Im not here for drinks you cupid stunt”.
Merkel is thinking, "80 years ago your type would be in a Camp."
Same headline used for Bucks county PA rain storm on tuesday.
Too many prayers were answered...
Since mid-April, water levels of the Rhine River, Europe’s most important waterway, have begun to drop to critical levels. This could disrupt shipping operations, in particular on the stretch from Koblenz to Rotterdam.
As of May 3, water levels at Kaub, one of the Rhine’s narrowest points south of Cologne, remained around 135 cm, a level that typically forces shipping lines to impose low-water surcharges on shipments. This increases costs for river-dependent industries such as chemicals, metallurgy, and energy that move raw materials between terminals and suppliers from the Netherlands all the way to Switzerland.
Low-water surcharges apply at critical water levels
Fluctuating water levels pose a threat to barge operators and manufacturers relying on river shipping as they can reduce the transportation capacity of ships, which requires companies to organize more costly alternative modes of transportation, such as road and rail, for large volumes of cargo. When water levels on the Rhine River fall below 135 cm, ships are only able to load as much as 50 percent of their usual capacity to avoid running aground.
Water levels – data from selected gauging stations on German federal waterways
Map with latest water-levels.
https://www.bafg.de/EN/06_Info_Service/01_WaterLevels/waterlevels_node.html
I grew up in Sherman, TX. Two years straight we had a “100 year” flood. No one said anything about climate protection measures.
Pretty as is much of Germany.
It has been a long time for me, but that looks like the castle in Heidelberg.
So I had a look to find out how much rain actually fell ... the source is meteociel.fr which has excellent weather information for Europe.
The heaviest rainfalls were in the range of 4 to 5 inches a day or 6 inches for two days over the past 48 hours. Those were measured in the Rhineland region of Germany. Amounts in Bavaria were generally 2 to 4 inches.
Those are not excessive by North American rainfall standards but I suppose the climate there does not go to such extremes as often. Still I was surprised not to find higher amounts on the maps (which go up to 0600 GMT or 0800 CET today).
Rainfall records in the UK extend to values as high as 10 to 12 inches a day in extreme cases. However these rainfalls in Germany and northeast France were widespread and probably added a lot of runoff on a regional basis. It has been quite wet for several months so the water tables would have been high before this started.
8” in 9 hours is a lot.
That’s exactly what it is.
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