Floods in Europe began after several days of heavy rains in late May - early June 2013.
 Chemnitz Flood, Germany , June 2, 2013 | |
| Period: | May - June 2013 |
| Cumulative damage: | € 12 billion [1] |
| The dead: | at least 24 [2] |
| Disaster areas: |  Austria  Czech Republic  Germany  Hungary  Poland  Slovakia  Switzerland  Ukraine  Romania  Croatia  Serbia  Bulgaria  Spain  Moldova  Belgium  Belarus |
Flooding area
Flooding and destruction mainly affected the east and north of Germany ( Thuringia , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Lower Saxony , Bavaria , Brandenburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Baden-Württemberg ), Czech Republic ( Bohemia ), and Austria ( Vienna ) Lower Austria , Upper Austria ), Poland ( Masovian , Lower Silesian , Lesser Poland , Opole , ентwiętokrzyskie , Silesia , Subcarpathian Voivodeship and Krakow ), Hungary. Switzerland [3] , Slovakia , Belarus [4] were less flooded [5] . The flood spread downstream of the Elbe , Danube and in the basin of their tributaries, which led to high water and flooding of the banks of these rivers. Due to heavy rains, the streets of several cities in Navarra ( Spain ) turned into stormy streams. Croatia introduced emergency mode. In emergency mode, Serbia and Romania were prepared for floods. Also southeast of Belgium, the north of Bulgaria and Ukraine (Odessa region, Crimea, the west of the country) are subject to flooding.
The deaths of at least 24 people have been reported.
Notes
- ↑ "Floods dominate natural catastrophe statistics in first half of 2013". Archived July 14, 2013 at Wayback Machine Munich Re. July 9, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ↑ Evacuations Increase as German Dike Breaks . Deutschlandradio (June 10, 2013). Date of treatment July 14, 2013. Archived on September 2, 2013.
- ↑ Central Europe hit by floods after days of rain (link not available) . The Island Packet (originally Associated Press ) (June 2, 2013). Date of treatment June 2, 2013. Archived on June 7, 2013.
- ↑ In Belarus, rainfall flooded 25 houses and de-energized 577 settlements. To be continued? - news.tut.by June 11, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ↑ Povodně trápí celou střední Evropu, Dunaj stoupl v Pasově k deseti metrům (neopr.) . Mladá fronta DNES . iDNES (June 2, 2013). Date of treatment June 2, 2013. Archived on June 7, 2013.