Storm Boris, which swept by Central and Jap Europe in mid-September together with distinctive rainfall, brought on 24 deaths and tens of hundreds of casualties in Poland, Romania, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and northern Italy (the area of Emilia-Romagna, which additionally suffered the identical phenomenon final 12 months). The toll could rise within the coming days.
The European Fee has introduced 10 billion euro in Cohesion Funds for the nations affected by the floods.
Scientists have categorised Boris as an excessive climatic occasion, exacerbated by world warming. “Your entire space above Central Europe, each the oceans and the land plenty, at the moment are two to 3 levels hotter in comparison with pre-industrial occasions on account of man-made intervention, by the emission of greenhouse gases that have an effect on the local weather”, explains Marc Olefs, head of local weather analysis at Geosphere Austria.
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