Rapid rain and slow response blamed for high number of flooding deaths in Europe.
. Luxembourg and the Netherlands were also hit with heavy downpours.
This despite there being “several days' warning beforehand that there could be major danger to life from flooding,” he added.Claire Nullis, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organization, said reports were coming in that some people had not heeded the warnings. “Others were surprised by the sheer scale of the rainfall,” she said.
“It’s something that we are not accustomed to in Europe,” Nullis said. “Rainfall like that is something you see in tropical countries.” Instead, she said they had been hit by what meteorologists have been calling a “1 in 100-year event.”
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