Weather maps of UK and central Europe could not be more different

Contrasting weather maps amusement the UK’s fortunate flight truthful acold compared to devastating floods elsewhere successful Europe.

Heavy rain successful Poland, Austria, Romania and Czech Republic has already claimed lives, with implicit 10,000 radical evacuated, a dam bursting and waters filmed carrying debris fractional a storey high.

Unusually for the UK, a outer representation from yesterday day shows the state astir without a cloud, aft an unseasonably acold drawback past week.

An anticyclone supra Britain is giving america fine, sunny, and settled weather, which whitethorn marque it hard for galore to adjacent conceive the torrential scenes connected the continent, wherever towns person been near wrecked including parts of the Austrian superior Vienna near without power.

While star panels successful the UK worked overtime, the upwind representation was a wide of rainclouds crossed cardinal Europe.

Storm Boris volition beryllium making its mode northbound towards the extremity of the week, with thunderstorms expected by time crossed the southbound by Saturday, though it volition person weakened by the clip it reaches us.

Thankfully we are not expected to spot the worst of the upwind arsenic has been seen further south, and the storms are apt to beryllium followed by different ‘short-lived settled spell’.

The low-pressure strategy successful cardinal Europe has triggered downpours from Austria to Romania, starring to immoderate of the worst flooding successful astir 3 decades successful hard-hit areas successful the Czech Republic and Poland.

Last week’s acold upwind is partially to blasted for the torrent, arsenic the acold aerial from the Arctic met lukewarm and moist aerial from the Mediterranean containing capable h2o for specified a deluge.

Polish premier curate Donald Tusk announced a authorities of earthy catastrophe successful the flooded areas to facilitate evacuation and rescue operations, arsenic good arsenic expedite fiscal enactment for the victims.

Water levels person subsided, leaving streets covered successful debris and mud, damaged bridges and immoderate burst dams and embankments.

Schools and offices successful the affected areas were closed connected Monday and drinking h2o and nutrient were being delivered by trucks.

In Hungary, the politician of Budapest warned residents that the largest floods successful a decennary were expected to deed the capital, with the waters of the Danube River acceptable to breach the city’s little quays by this morning.

Such storms person been made much apt by our warming climate, with warmer aerial capable to incorporate much moisture which tin past determination down from clouds.

Britain is surely not immune from flash floods and utmost weather. Last winter, the state was deed with atrocious flooding with farming peculiarly affected.

This year, a rainier than mean September is expected to usher successful different bedewed winter, with the authorities already gathering to sermon exigency effect should it beryllium needed.

The British Red Cross says that 1.9 cardinal radical crossed the UK presently unrecorded successful areas astatine important hazard of flooding, a fig that could treble by the 2050s. 

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