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The flooding caused significant disruptions to the 2024 European Parliament elections, particularly in the province of Styria. The heavy rainfall rendered several polling stations in Deutschfeistritz , Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District , and Graz inaccessible or destroyed, necessitating rapid responses from local authorities to ensure that voters ...
At least 15 people have died in flooding from Austria to Romania. Poland's government announced a state of natural disaster in affected areas and said that it had set aside 1 billion zlotys ($260 ...
Experts warned of flood threats due to the cresting Oder River in Opole, a city of some 130,000 residents, and Wroclaw, home to about 640,000 residents and where disastrous flooding happened in 1997. Firefighters in southwestern Poland said flood victims included a surgeon whose body was found Monday morning in Nysa after he returned from ...
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.
The highest level of flood warning, at level four, was placed on the districts from Regensburg to Straubing. [15] In the meantime, heavy rainfall in Switzerland led to rising water levels in rivers and lakes, including the Sitter river at Goldach , Lake Constance , the High Rhine , and caused overflow at the Untersee and Lake Lauerz .
The worst floods to hit central Europe in at least two decades have left a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland, spreading mud and debris in towns, destroying bridges, submerging cars and ...
Deaths from massive floods in southwest Poland this month have risen to nine, police said, reporting two more bodies found in the clean-up. At least 26 people died across central Europe in the ...
During the night of 3–4 October 2024, central and southern Bosnia and Herzegovina experienced severe flooding, the worst since the 2014 Southeast Europe floods, [1] due to an atmospheric river formed over the Adriatic Sea.