2021 European floods

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The location where flooded countries are in Europe
The flood in Bern

The 2021 European floods are a series of ongoing severe floods which began on 12 July 2021. They have affected several river basins. It started in the United Kingdom before spreading into Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland.[1] Germany was affected the hardest where at least 103 people died.[2] 200,000 properties were left without power.[2][3]

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  1. "More flooding for Europe". BBC Weather. BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Flutkatastrophe: Bereits mehr als 100 Tote". tagesschau.de (in German). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  3. "Germany and Belgium floods: At least 33 dead and more than 70 missing after heavy rain". Sky News. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.