17. Mar 2025 | Allgemein, heavy rain
Bahía Blanca, a port city in Argentina, was hit by a devastating rainstorm that brought the equivalent of an entire year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours. The floods have claimed at least 16 lives, and more than a thousand people were forced to evacuate....
29. Sep 2023 | drought, Food Security, General, Heat, heavy rain, Members, Vegetation Fires
Over the past three days (September 27-29, 2023), the participants of the ExtremeWeatherCongress in Hamburg, Germany, have intensively dealt with the challenge of increasing weather extremes. The German Weather Service (DWD) reports “2023 represents, according...
14. Jul 2023 | Flood 2021, heavy rain
In the night of 14 to 15 July 2021, an extremely heavy rain event occurred in western Germany, in the course of which large parts of the Ahr valley were also destroyed. The flood disaster led to the death of 190 people and caused property damage of about 33 billion...
20. Jun 2023 | Flood 2021, heavy rain
The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) has published a report on the follow-up to the operations in relation to the heavy rain event “Bernd”. All 668 local units of the THW were engaged in technical support after the 2021 flash floods in the Ahr...
4. May 2023 | Early Warning, Frühwarnung, Gastvortrag, Guest contribution, heavy rain, Members, Mitglieder, Starkregen
Disaster management must be trained so that aid arrives efficiently in the event of a crisis – also in international disaster management. In addition to field exercises in which technical equipment such as pumps are used, tabletop exercises are primarily used to...
