Storm Boris, which swept by way of Central and Jap Europe in mid-September together with distinctive rainfall, induced 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 yr). 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 international warming. “All the space above Central Europe, each the oceans and the land lots, at the moment are two to a few levels hotter in comparison with pre-industrial occasions resulting from man-made intervention, by way of 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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