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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Flash flooding in Bavaria, Austria as heat wave breaks |
| 2022-08-21 |
It’s as if all that fussing was nothing more than hysteria. [DW] Bone dry ground in southern Germany and Austria was unable to absorb heavy rains as they finally fell overnight. In other parts of Germany, the wait for promised and plentiful precipitation continued. The German Weather Service (DWD) had issued storm warnings for much of the country overnight. It said on Saturday that the extent of the damage overnight had been less serious than feared, but kept its highest storm warning level in place for the southeasternmost tip of Bavaria for Saturday. Bavaria's flooding alert service said that streams and rivers that had been at dangerously low levels were filling up rapidly as water ran off the soil and into the tributaries. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... it said that "in mid-sized and larger rivers" that were more accurately monitored, "the quantities of rain have so far only led to a few isolated cases of burst banks." |
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