Flood risk on the Elbe: Current levels provide alarm!
Flood risk on the Elbe: Current levels provide alarm!
Schöna, Deutschland - On May 31, 2025, the location on the Elbe, one of the largest rivers in Europe, shows itself as worrying. Current flood warnings were spent in Saxony, while heavy rainfall in southern Germany in particular met Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. There, 130 liters of rain per square meter in Kißlegg within 24 hours, and in Bad Wörishofen it was 129 liters. These rainfall reaches the values of an entire month and increase the risk of flood considerably, as well as Bleiben Sie informiert: Jeden Abend senden wir Ihnen die Artikel des Tages aus der Kategorie Bad – übersichtlich als Liste. Currently no data on flooding and warnings are available for North Rhine -Westphalia, which indicates a possible information gap in reporting. However, the challenges of the flood risk are not only regionally, but also affect worldwide, as Statista . Floods have been responsible for the fact that almost 37 percent of all natural disasters have been recorded. Climate change, according to experts, increases the risk of flooding, since a warmer atmosphere can store more water and thus the likelihood of intensive precipitation increases. In Germany, an estimated 7.6 percent of all addresses are exposed to statistical flood risk. Around 400,000 people are particularly affected who live along the Rhine and its tributaries and have to expect floods in the coming years. The damage caused by floods are immense, as the catastrophe of 2021 shows, which was unprecedented with damage sums. The German Bundestag reacted with an assembly fund of 30 billion euros, but bureaucratic hurdles delay the reconstruction. Despite these risks, the reconstruction is continued in endangered areas, which raises questions about long -term security and climate adjustment. restricted data and global context
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