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After heavy rainfall earlier this week caused severe flooding in Italy, the southern European country is now bracing for the return of high temperatures in what has been an extreme weather rollercoaster. The regions worst affected were Emilia Romagna, Liguria, southern Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. On Tuesday, streets and underpasses were flooded in Pistoia, northern Tuscany, while fire teams went out in dinghies around Parma to rescue stranded motorists. River levels around Modena and Piacenza were on red alert, and heavy snow cut off mountain refuges in Piedmont. The weather is impro...
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Three people were missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide, authorities said. One woman was pulled out alive after being buried by the landslide in the Alpine valley of Misox in Graubünden. A rescue operation for the three others is ongoing. The rockslide hit a group of houses in the municipality of Lostallo. Rescuers have been searching all day Saturday with excavators and specially-trained search dogs. William Kloter from the Swiss police, who is heading the rescue operations, told local media that he was hoping to find the t...
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New research by Italian scientists estimates that parts of Venice will be submerged by 2150. The study was carried out by experts at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and analysed data on tide level rise. Venice has been battling increasingly frequent flooding for decades. There is now a system of flood barriers in place in its lagoon, a shallow, 550 km² enclosed bay in the northern Adriatic Sea that surrounds Venice and its islands. But these won’t be enough to protect the city from continual sinking and sea level rise. Venice will be underwater by 2150A team of scie...
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Three fire engines and a helicopter were deployed for Wednesday's rescue. The driver, who had mobility issues, was safely airlifted and appeared to be unharmed. Torrential rain caused chaos, flooding homes and streets and prompting around 400 emergency calls. The State Meteorological Agency - AEMET in the region announced that in Murcia, more rain fell in about twenty minutes than the average for the entire summer (June, July, and August). Specifically, 43.8 litres per square metre were recorded, with 32.8 litres falling in just 10 minutes. This amount is close to the 40.6 litres per square me...
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Dangerous flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated much of southern Florida, blocking roads, floating vehicles and delaying travellers.
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Operations were suspended as 53 liters of rain per square meter deluged the terminals, with 43.8 liters falling within an hour. Although the storm has passed and flights have resumed, Aemet (Spanish Meteorological Agency) cautions of more rain, urging travelers to verify their flights.
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Turkey has been hit by the heatwave, with air temperatures 8 to 12 degrees above seasonal norms throughout the week, and this has started to take its toll and will continue. The western and southern coasts of the country are already under the influence of extreme heat, with the thermometer continuing to rise. The heat wave will hit the Aegean and the Mediterranean the hardest and some fear rising temperatures could cause fires. A holiday village in the Olympos resort in Antalya's Kumluca has already succumbed to the flames. Most of the wooden houses burned down within a few hours. Three villag...
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Residents in several towns in Austria were cleaning up on Monday after severe thunderstorms over the weekend caused flooding and mudslides. For people in the Styria region, there is still no relief in sight with firefighters saying they had not seen such bad weather in 40 years. In the town of Deutschfeistritz, north of Graz, a flash flood swept away cars and damaged numerous houses, leaving the town centre accessible only by boat
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Residents in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, are bracing for the worst as the authorities issued a second-level flood warning because of the rising level of the Danube River, following days of heavy rain in the region.
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The death toll in floods across a large part of southern Germany rose to four on Monday as three bodies were recovered from inundated basements, while authorities warned water could rise further in the coming days. The body of a 43-year-old woman whom rescuers had been looking for since Sunday morning was found in a basement in the Bavarian town of Schrobenhausen, police told German press. Later Monday, police said the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a basement in Schorndorf, near Stuttgart, that had been flooded and then pumped dry. Persistent heavy rain led to widespread flooding i...
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