Disruptive Floods in Germany
May 30, 2016
A Scientist contact in Europe sends these.
Looks more like a tsunami than a typical flood.
Below, driving rain and hail from the same storm turn an auto race into a Keystone cops comedy:
Title in English:
24H Nurburgring Nordschleife 2016 – Severe Weather Chaos | Rain and hail to Rennabbruch
May 30, 2016 at 9:40 am
Reblogged this on A Green Road Daily News.
May 30, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Some west German towns did experience the amount of two months of rainfall in just a couple of hours: more than 100mm. In east Germany snowploughs had to remove several inches of hail. These “once in a century” severer weather events seem to have become the new normal in Europe.
May 30, 2016 at 5:12 pm
Here in NZ we look on this sort of thing as a nice boost for the economy.
May 30, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Not sure how much rain fell in Paris but all Roland Garros matches were suspended today.
May 31, 2016 at 6:48 am
[…] This weekend’s record flooding in Germany was a reminder of one of the most basic, first-order-physics predictions of climate science – warmer air holds more moisture. The pattern of increase in record breaking precipitation events is well documented and global, as my friend Stephan Rahmstorf reminded me this morning with a graph from a recent study of similar events. […]
June 1, 2016 at 12:25 am
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