Storm Boris and Portugal wildfires live: Italy braces for heavy rain after flooding in eastern Europe as firefighters battle blazes

Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, cancelled all of his engagements immediately in response to the fires and mentioned the nation confronted “some very tough occasions over the following few days”.

An excessive hearth warning has been prolonged till Thursday night time.

The town of Wroclaw has readied buses for doable evacuations and dropped sandbags from army helicopters to bolster river embankments amid flooding fears.

The town mentioned it anticipated the flood wave to peak there round Friday, although some had predicted that may occur sooner.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with a disaster crew early Tuesday and mentioned there are contradictory forecasts from meteorologists.

The Italian Meteorological Service has issued warnings for heavy rainfall, sturdy winds and intense storms from the early hours of this morning, lasting till Thursday.

The alerts stretch from northern coast of Emilia-Romagna to the south of the nation.

Croatia is getting ready for doubtlessly dangerously excessive river ranges due to heavy rainfall throughout the area.

The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service warns the Danube may expertise an “extraordinarily uncommon” water enhance and plans are in place to place up flood limitations if needed.

The BBC reviews that specialists anticipate the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river, to hit a file excessive though they don’t suppose it is going to burst its banks.

A area hospital is to be arrange within the Polish metropolis of Nysa the place among the worst flooding has occurred.

Gazeta Wyborcza reviews that Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, deputy prime minister, mentioned at a convention in Wrocław: “We’ve got decided to launch a area hospital and set it up in Nysa.”

He mentioned it is going to be absolutely operational later immediately.

In a single day, volunteers helped rescue employees heave sandbags to construct up the damaged embankment across the metropolis of greater than 40,000 folks in southwestern Poland.

Particulars are starting to emerge about among the 19 individuals who have been killed by the floods.

An 81-year-old girl from Würmla in Austria is the fifth particular person to die within the present flooding in Decrease Austria.

In response to chief inspector Johann Baumschlager she died in her flooded home and her physique was found by emergency companies on Tuesday morning.

The Impartial has requested the primary airways flying to and from the area – British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air – whether or not they’ll permit passengers to fly house earlier with out penalty.

Ryanair mentioned: “Passengers have the choice of constructing modifications to their bookings on-line as much as 2.5 hours previous to the scheduled departure time of the unique or new flight.

“If a passenger is away or must return urgently, they’ll accomplish that by contacting our customer support crew who will strive assist any passengers seeking to return as quickly as doable.”

EasyJet mentioned regular insurance policies might be imposed – with a change charge and any distinction in fare imposed. Such prices could also be recoverable from a journey insurer, relying on the circumstances.

The airways have been requested that query and once more, within the absence of responses you need to assume that you’d lose some or all your money. The exception is in case you are booked on a package deal vacation and the journey can’t go forward as deliberate due to flooding. In that case, the organiser of the journey ought to present a full refund.

That is dependent upon the phrases that you simply agreed with the property proprietor, and whether or not they’ll permit any latitude due to the floods.

The British International Workplace presently has the next warnings in place:

Austria (east): Street closures and disruptions to public transport might happen in affected areas. Verify highway site visitors info and public transport updates from Austrian Railways and Vienna public transport earlier than you journey.Czech Republic: Heavy rain and flooding is inflicting extreme disruption, particularly in southern and japanese elements of the nation.Poland: Heavy rain and flooding is inflicting extreme disruption within the Decrease Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Silesian (Śląskie) and Opolskie Voivodeships [counties] in southwest Poland. Verify native circumstances earlier than you journey and comply with the directions of the Polish authorities in case you are in these areas.Romania: Heavy rain and flooding is inflicting disruption in japanese Romania. Verify native circumstances earlier than you journey and comply with the directions of the Romanian authorities in case you are in these areas.

Throughout Poland, a number of practice routes have been suspended because of the flooding. Some companies are nonetheless working with shortened routes and passengers have been suggested to verify their route earlier than setting off.