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The European Flood Awareness System is a European Commission initiative to increase preparedness for riverine floods across Europe.. The disastrous floods in Elbe and Danube rivers in 2002 confronted the European Commission with non-coherent flood warning information from different sources and of variable quality, complicating planning and organization of aid.
[59] [60] Orange and red Meteoalarm flood warnings were issued for Western Slovakia on 15 September. [57] At noon on 16 September, the level of the Danube reached a height of 926 centimeters and overflowed onto the Tyrš and Fajnor Embankments in Bratislava. [61] The Danube reached height of 970 centimeters on 17 September, at 2:30 a.m., [62 ...
The spring weather preceding the flooding had been wet in the region, and May 2013 had been one of the three wettest in the last 156 years in Austria, together with the years 1962 and 1965. Austria saw twice as much rainfall as average during the month, [ 7 ] resulting in the ground in the region becoming saturated.
Flooded Vienna River on 15 September 2024. Concurrently with flooding in Germany in early June, rising river levels on the Danube River reached 6.86 meters on the morning of 4 June, causing it to burst its banks in Linz, submerging areas close to the river. All river traffic along the Danube in the Lower Austria area was halted. [3]
Flooding in several regions of Belgium occurred in the wake of four days of torrential rain. [24] The flooding claimed at least three lives throughout the country. A 60-year-old man died between Harsin and Hargimont after being swept away by a river in an ill-fated attempt to move his beehives. [7]
Weather. 8 best river cruises in Europe, from the Douro to the Danube. Chris Wilson. June 27, 2023 at 5:34 AM. ... Alongside the Danube, the Rhine is one of Europe’s main cruise rivers. Many ...
The Danube river was at its peak 865 cm (28 ft 4 in) high in Budapest, Hungary, higher than the previous record of 848 cm in 2002. During the floods, approximately 11,000 buildings were in danger of flood damage, 32,000 people were threatened by the water, and 1.72 square kilometres (475 acres) of land were actually under water.
Annual precipitation averages about 635 mm (25 in) in central Transylvania, 521 mm (20.5 in) at Iaşi in Moldavia, and only 381 mm (15 in) at Constanţa on the Black Sea. Romania map of Köppen climate classification, according to Clima României from the Administrația Națională de Meteorologie , Bucharest 2008