The persistent rain will end on Tuesday, Geosphere Austria announced on Monday afternoon. From Tuesday until next weekend, no more large amounts of rain are expected across the board. Since last Thursday, two to five times as much rain has fallen in eastern Austria as in an average entire September.
According to the current forecast, further rainfall of between 30 and 50 millimeters is expected from the Tyrolean lowlands to the east by Tuesday morning. In isolated cases, around 80 millimeters could fall, with the mountainous region of the Mostviertel receiving the most rainfall. The rain will then subside over the course of the day on Tuesday, and Geosphere Austria is not expecting any more large amounts of rain across the area from Wednesday to Sunday. The sun should at least shine again at times, and only isolated showers are expected.
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Locally up to 400 millimetres of rain
Between Thursday and Monday morning, up to 400 millimeters of rain fell in Lower Austria and Vienna in particular, with one millimeter corresponding to one liter per square meter. Between 300 and almost 400 millimeters were recorded at the Geosphere Austria weather stations in Lilienfeld, St. Pölten, Langenlebarn, Lunz am See, Buchberg, Reichenau an der Rax, Schwarzau im Freiwald and in Weyer in Upper Austria. Between 250 and 300 millimeters fell at the Vienna weather stations in Mariabrunn and Stammersdorf. In Lower Austria, the same amounts were recorded in Oberndorf an der Melk, Bärnkopf, Klausen-Leopoldsdorf and Puchberg am Schneeberg, and in Upper Austria in Unterach am Attersee, Bad Ischl and Windischgarsten.
Between 200 and 250 millimeters of rain fell in Lower Austria in Stockerau, Zwettl, Waidhofen/Ybbs and Langenlois. In Upper Austria, Mondsee, Bad Goisern and Linz were in this area, in Salzburg Abtenau and Mattsee and in Styria Mariazell and Bad Aussee.
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Many weather stations reported new records for daily and multi-day rainfall – not surprisingly. “The entire rainfall event is not over yet and all data still needs to be checked. But the first evaluation of the raw data shows extreme results,” said Geosphere Austria climatologist Alexander Orlik. 225 millimeters of rain fell on St. Pölten from Saturday to Sunday – the second highest 24-hour rainfall ever recorded in Austria.
You can also listen to our five-part podcast series on the 2013 floods:
400 litres of rain per square metre – a third of the annual rainfall, several record water levels on the Danube, 228 affected communities, 22 of which to an unimaginable extent – that was the flood disaster of 2013.
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