Climate Change Amplified 2024 European Floods More than Rainfall, Models Show
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Storm Boris shows how climate change amplifies floods: without human warming, its peaks would have been between 14% and 22% lower.
Climate change amplified 2024 European floods more than rainfall, models show
In September 2024, Storm Boris brought extreme precipitation and severe flooding to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Poland, Czechia and Austria were particularly affected. In some areas, several hundred millimeters of rain fell within a few days, and numerous rivers burst their banks.
Flooding in Poland and other European countries in 2024 was probably much more threatening due to climate change. The new models show that global warming has increased the scale of river embankments more strongly than would have resulted from the increase in rainfall alone. Scientists explain where this difference comes from.
Madrid.- Climate change increases the risk of extreme rainfall (a lot of rain in a short time) and further increases the danger of flooding.In the case of storm Boris, in September 2024, it aggravated them by 22% in Central and Eastern Europe, according to a study.That historical storm caused extreme rainfall and [...] The entry Climate change aggravated to 22% the floods by storm Boris in Europe was first published in EFE Green.
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