| Onkel Neal |
07-19-21 11:05 AM |
This is going to take a massive volunteer effort, but I know Germany is up to the task.
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Numerous locations in western Germany received 5 to 7 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts, between Tuesday and Thursday. Some of the most extreme downpours occurred Wednesday night into Thursday, when more than a half-foot of rain fell in less than 12 hours. Here are some select totals from western Germany:
Reifferscheid received 8.1 inches in just 9 hours, according to CNN.
Cologne received 6 inches in the 24 hours ending Thursday morning, according to CNN.
Lüdenscheid received 4.5 inches of rain in 24 hours, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst.
Düsseldorf received 1.89 inches in 12 hours Tuesday night into Wednesday, according to AccuWeather. Its three-day (between early Tuesday morning and early Thursday morning) total was 5.6 inches.
Heavy rain not only affected Germany but also Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France.
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That's reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey which slammed us in 2018:
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60.58 inches: The highest storm total rainfall, found in Nederland, northeast of Houston. Rainfall within a tenth of an inch of that total was recorded in Groves, a neighboring community.
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All the rivers came out of their banks and flooded the whole region. My land that I was planning to build on at the time had 4 feet of water on it for 6 days. That's one reason I sold it last year and bought some land further inland, up by Dallas.
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The high-pressure system over the Atlantic was flanked by an unusually intense zone of low pressure to the east over Central Europe that helped generate the downpours. The low was sandwiched between another area of high pressure over Eastern Europe, creating a weather system traffic jam that allowed heavy rain to persist. Computer models showed that the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, or a quantity known as total precipitable water, was comparable to those seen along the U.S. Gulf Coast during hurricane landfalls.
Before the torrents, Deutscher Wetterdienst had warned that weather models were predicting extreme amounts of precipitation in some areas.
The intensity of rain overwhelmed local rivers that flow into the Rhine River basin, and the volume of water overflowed several dams.
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You guys basically had a tropical storm camp out on top of you. :timeout:
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Originally Posted by Skybird
(Post 2758491)
Talk of of monumental system failure on the political level, because there were warnings from an European weather network monitoring events up to nine days ahead and correctly identifying most of the hotspots that later got hit. Political leaders decided to not take it serious and not to call the alarm.
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Honestly, if you live near a river or coastline, you shouldn't be waiting for the politicians to tell you what to do. The weather forecasters probably worked themselves into a frenzy, this should have been obvious. |
