Overview

• Storm systems that swept through Tyrol, Vorarlberg and South Tyrol before crossing into western Germany have subsided, leaving flooded cellars and waterlogged roads.
• Fire and police forces launched hundreds of operations to rescue residents, pump out flooded basements and clear landslide debris across affected regions.
• An aquaplaning crash on the A8 near Burgau caused significant traffic backups but resulted in no injuries.
• The German Weather Service has issued warnings for further showers and thunderstorms in the coming days, maintaining the risk of localized flooding.
• A study in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science projects that extreme summer downpours in the Alps will occur twice as often under two degrees of global warming.