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The official death toll was 495 deaths. Unofficial estimates are of at least 700 deaths. heavy rains 1968: Great Flood of 1968: United Kingdom, France: 0: heavy rains and thunderstorms 1970: 1970 floods in Romania: Romania: 209: heavy rains and snowmelting 1976: Gale of January 1976: Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway ...
Famine and typhoid fever in Ireland [16] and food riots in England and France, caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora affecting the weather. 60,000 [17] 1847–48 influenza pandemic: 1847–1848: Worldwide influenza outbreak. 52,627 [18] [b] 1870–1875 Europe smallpox epidemic: 1870–1875: Mortality figure for England and Scotland only.
Eight departments in northern and western France were put under flood alert. [25] Particularly affected was the town of Arques in the Pas-de-Calais department. [26] The River Aa overflowed following heavy rains. [27] On 10 March, five people were killed by floods following violent storms across southern France, [28] with seven others reported ...
The Great Flood of 1968 was a flood caused by a pronounced trough of low pressure which brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to South East England and France in mid-September 1968, with the worst on Sunday 15 September 1968, and followed earlier floods in South West England during July. [3]
The 2015–2016 Great Britain and Ireland floods were a series of heavy rainfall events which led to flooding during the winter of late 2015 and early 2016. 11 named storms produced record level rainfall from November 2015 - March 2016 in both monthly and seasonal accumulation records.
A further six people were killed in Germany, three in Spain, one in Portugal, one in Belgium and another one in England. [2] Most of the deaths in France occurred when a powerful storm surge topped by battering waves up to 7.5 m (25 ft) high, hitting at high tide, smashed through the sea wall off the coastal town of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer. [6]
Tsunamis affecting Britain and Ireland are extremely uncommon, and there have only been two confirmed cases in recorded history. Meteotsunamis (displacements due to atmospheric pressure, rather than seismic shock) are somewhat more common, especially on the southern coasts of England around the English and Bristol Channels .
It then made landfall in southeastern France, contributing to severe flooding in France, Spain, and Italy that resulted in 11 deaths. [89] Rolf was the first tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean Sea to be officially monitored by NOAA. [90]