Styria puts a rain of delight under water: chaos in the supermarket!

Styria puts a rain of delight under water: chaos in the supermarket!

Kapfenberg, Österreich - violent thunderstorms shaken Styria on Monday evening and led to a dramatic use of the fire brigade. In Kapfenberg, water entered the sales room of a supermarket at around 7 p.m., which required quick reactions from the emergency services. The Kapfenberg-Diemlach fire brigade was quickly on the spot and was able to quickly remove the water, which was partly several centimeters high, with a wet vacuum. However, this assignment turned out to be just the beginning: while the firefighters were busy tidying up, the next alarm followed. The emergency services finally returned to the armory around 9 p.m. The situation seems tense, because serious storms in the region are again expected for Tuesday. According to the "Skywarnaustria" weather platform, even super cells could form in the southeastern part of Styria, from Leibnitz to Bad Radkersburg. Further storms could also occur further north in the Feldbach region to southern Burgenland and in the neighboring countries of Slovenia and Hungary.

a worrying weather phenomenon

The chaos in Kapfenberg is only a small part of a much bigger problem that is tightened by climate change. Researchers of the World Weather Attribution initiative warn that extreme weather events will occur twice as often in the future, which is particularly illustrated by storm low "Boris". This brought with it to deletion -like rainfall, which have been the strongest precipitation in Central Europe since the start of the recordings. In recent years, countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania have suffered from the consequences of extreme weather that caused great devastation and cost the lives of many people.

The results of a current study show that climate change doubles the likelihood of such extreme weather events and rain enhances by up to seven percent. Climate change has heated the earth by 1.3 degrees Celsius since the pre -industrial era, which has led to a variety of devastating weather events. Flood events that were previously considered one -time incidents now appear repeatedly, as the examples from 1997 and 2002 prove.

preparation for the future

In order to be able to better manage such disasters in the future, expert Maja Vahlberg demands that climate change to integrate climate change into land use planning. This could increase the chances that similar floods do not have such serious effects again. Despite the extreme rains, which this time brought back in Central Europe in record height, there were luckily fewer fatalities than in earlier events such as 2002 when 232 people lost their lives. This is seen as a success of investments in predictions and early warning systems.

The EU recently provided ten billion euros for emergency repairs to fix the damage and support the infrastructure. However, scientists urgently warn not only to consider climate change as a temporary phenomenon. A rethink is required to limit the warming of the earth to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above the pre -industrial level in order to avoid worse rainfall and floods.

fossil fuels must be replaced by renewable energies to combat climate change, according to Joyce Kimutai, while Friederike Otto criticizes the withdrawal of politicians from climate "and indicates the existential threat to climate change. In view of the current weather conditions, the need for measures to adapt to the changed climatic conditions is becoming increasingly urgent.