A Scientist contact in Europe sends these.
Looks more like a tsunami than a typical flood.
Below, driving rain and hail from the same storm turn an auto race into a Keystone cops comedy:
Title in English:
24H Nurburgring Nordschleife 2016 – Severe Weather Chaos | Rain and hail to Rennabbruch
Reblogged this on A Green Road Daily News.
Some west German towns did experience the amount of two months of rainfall in just a couple of hours: more than 100mm. In east Germany snowploughs had to remove several inches of hail. These “once in a century” severer weather events seem to have become the new normal in Europe.
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Here in NZ we look on this sort of thing as a nice boost for the economy.
Not sure how much rain fell in Paris but all Roland Garros matches were suspended today.