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Record Rainfalls Caused Flood Disaster in Austria
Over the past few days, Austria has experienced extreme rainfall that has broken numerous rainfall records and led to widespread flooding. The federal states of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and Vienna were particularly affected, with many weather stations recording several hundred millimeters of rain in just a few days.
Although the rainfall has now subsided, the clean-up work is continuing and the levels of many rivers are only falling slowly. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / C.Stadler/Bwag / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
According to GeoSphere Austria, around half of the 280 weather stations measured over 100 millimeters of rain, with twelve stations even recording up to 400 millimeters. In Lilienfeld/Tarschberg in Lower Austria, for example, 418 millimeters of rain fell, significantly exceeding the previous record of 273 millimeters from 1997. In St. Pölten, 409 millimeters were recorded, almost twice…
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