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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]
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.
Overview map Flooding in Passau, Bavaria where the Danube, Inn and Ilz rivers converge Extreme flooding in Central Europe began after several days of heavy rain in late May and early June 2013. Flooding and damages primarily affected south and east German states ( Thuringia , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Lower Saxony , Bavaria and Baden ...
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 ...
The Danube has been mostly controlled since the 19th century. There is about 1,250 km 2 (480 sq mi) of flood-protected area along the banks of the Danube in Hungary, with about 1,123,000 km 3 (269,000 cu mi) of dykes. No stretch of land along the river is left open to the floods.
Hableány ([ˈhɒblɛaːɲ]; Hungarian for ' Mermaid ') was a 27-metre (89 ft) river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary.On the rainy night of May 29, 2019, at 9:05 pm the 135-metre (443 ft) Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near the Parliament Building. [2]
The Elbe before and after the 2002 flood. In August 2002, a week of intense rainfall produced flooding across a large portion of Europe.It reached the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine and Russia. [2]
Flooding in Paris was expected to peak [when?] at around 6.30 m above normal, higher than 6.18 m high seen in 1982, but below the 1955 flood level of 7.12 m, and the 1910 Paris flood which saw levels at 8.62 m above normal. [23] In Brittany and Corsica, however, a drought was experienced throughout May.