Weather WTF

[Syt]

Meanwhile, in Vienna:

Update

[Syt]

After prolonged heatwave, Austria has been receiving huge amounts of rain these past two days. It's bad mostly in the countryside, but even in Vienna the Wienfluss has risen "a bit".

Normally:





Currently:

[Syt]

Also:



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[Syt]

Lower Austria has been declared a disaster area. Even in Vienna (though on the far outskirts) some houses needed to be evacuated. Some subway tracks are closed for now (the ones near Wienfluss and Donaukanal).

[Sheilbh]

On weather, we just had the worst summer I can remember in years that then immediately shifted into autumn.

Got a little bit of sun and warmth again now but been dreadful

[Syt]

You can gladly have our 52 or 53 days of over 30° and 60 or so nights over 20°

[Syt]

There's power outages in some parts of Vienna. A fireman has died. A few villages are being evacuated. Several roads and highways are closed off (including the Westautobahn and parts of the Südautobahn, main arteries into/out of Vienna); railroad has suspended service in affected areas. Parts of Austria have seen four times as much rain in two days as they would normally get in all of September.


Helicopter rescue following an accident.


Subway station Schottenring. Water is normally a couple meters lower than that:



Keep in mind that Danube, Donaukanal and Wienfluss in the past decades were engineered to handle flooding events. But this is a bit more than usual.

Oh, and will likely continue to rain like this till tomorrow and possibly Tuesday.

[garbon]

On weather, we just had the worst summer I can remember in years that then immediately shifted into autumn.

Got a little bit of sun and warmth again now but been dreadful

The whole of next week is predicted to be warm weather in the 70s.

[Sheilbh]

The whole of next week is predicted to be warm weather in the 70s.

God willing it holds. Need an Indian summer.

[Syt]

Seems Czechs, Poles and Romanians are hit harder than Austria.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdrjjl3mmy8t

[Grey Fox]

How much mm of rain so far, Syt?

[Syt]

About 150-300 mm in some areas. Probably going to be another 150 mm by end of tomorrow in some areas. Which doesn't sound much, but it all adds up. Overall it's a flooding which occurs roughly every 30 years, though for Vienna the experts say it's a "once every 100+ years" event. Mind you, Vienna is not as badly affected as many towns and communities (biggest irritation is that most of the subways are down, and houses on the outskirts are underwater).

Overall, some areas see less rain, but with the precipitation continuing till maybe Tuesday, and the ground unable to absorb more water, it might get worse before it gets better.

[Grey Fox]

Wow.

150 liters per m² is alot. Good luck to you all.

[Syt]

Thanks. Night was relatively quiet, with some receding floods, but more rain today. From tomorrow onwards we will be back to 20+° and sunshine, though. 

Some graphs showing cubic meters of water per second at some points in rivers in last days. (Rivers are shown in brackets)



No estimates on financial damages, but it's likely to be in the billions, including people unable to get to work today.

[Syt]

Kłodzko, Poland:



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