Floods in Germany - statistics & facts
Scientific reports across international media have confirmed the extreme heavy rainfall in Germany in July 2021 might not have occurred if climate change had not advanced as much as it has. During July 12-15, following three weeks of already warm and rainy weather, towns and villages around the German Ahr and Erft rivers largely collapsed as the soaked earth underneath gave way and river banks could no longer hold. The rivers overflowed, flooding residential areas. Water mixed with mud coursing through streets caused both mass destruction and fatalities in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Saxony.
