UK and Germany Storm Surge After Hurricane Gonzalo
Hurricane Gonzalo, or at least what is left of it, has caused storm surges and coastal flooding in parts of northern Europe over the last few days. Gonzalo has left…
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Flash Floods Across Europe – 2 Dead in Germany
Parts of northern, central and south eastern Europe are seeing widespread flooding after a wave of severe weather. 3 people have been killed in flooding in south east Europe in…
Europe Faces Deadly Cost for Climate Inaction
A European Commission study – Joint Research Centre: New study quantifies the effects of climate change in Europe – claims that flood damage in Europe could exceed €10bn a year…
Tidal Surge Floods in Northern Europe
The UK was the first country to suffer from the storm, labelled in Germany as Hurricane Xaver and in Denmark as Cyclone Bodil and in Sweden as Sven. You can…
North Sea Flood Threat
Can the North Sea Floods of 1953 happen again? A storm that is likely to hit parts of Northern Europe between Thursday 5 December and Friday 6 December prompted authorities…
June Floods Cost $27 Billion
According to a report by Bloomberg a few days ago, the devastating floods in central Europe, northern India and Canada during June 2013 will cost a staggering $27 billion in…
Flood Warning Co-Operation
There’s an interesting report in the BBC regarding the lack of cooperation between South Asian countries in preventing timely flood warnings that could save lives and property during the monsoon…
Germany Flood Pictures June 2013
In our efforts to report and document as many of the major flood events as we can from around the world, we have been working on building a library of…
Barges Sunk to Block Fishbeck Dyke
The broken dyke at Fishbeck, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, resulting in the whole of the village and some of the surrounding villages being flooded. Until now the hole in the dyke has…
Flood Prevention in Germany – What Now?
There is a meeting today (Thursday 13/06/13) between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of Germany’s 16 regional states. Obviously the recent floods in Germany will be high on…
Wittenberge Germany
Yet another German city on the River Elbe has suffered from terrible floods. This time it is Wittenberge, Brandenburg, a town of around 18,000 residents. The town is holding its…
Germany Floods Map – Before and After
Below are some satellite images of the floods in Bitterfeld, Dessau, Halle and Magedeburg in Germany. The first images are from before the floods, most of which were taken around…
Germany Elbe Floods Update
Levels of the river Elbe in Magdeburg are now falling steadily. The levels reached a record height of 745cm. The previous record was during the floods of 2002 when levels…
The Elbe in Magdeburg, Germany
As I mentioned in a previous post, the German cities of Dresden, Halle and Bitterfeld were all expecting the worst over the last few days as the levels of the…
Germany Flood Update
Germany has 60,000 local emergency personnel and aid workers, as well as 25,000 federal disaster responders and 16,000 soldiers now fighting the floods. Thanks to the huge efforts of these…
Germany Watches the Elbe
Update: Elbe River Levels at Dresden on 07/06/13 The level of the River Elbe at Dresden is now falling slowly but surely, and is currently at 8.59 metres Elbe River…
