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Wasn't I just reading articles about how awful drought was afflicting Germany?
What are the watersheds in the affected area?
Looks like the water that falls in Munich ultimately winds up in the Danube.
The water that falls in Stuttgart ultimately winds up in the Rhine.
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https://www.icpdr.org/tasks-topics/topics/droughts/severe-droughts-danube-river-basin
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62519683
EDIT: That was 2022. What about 2021?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods
And that was the Rhine.
How about 2023?
https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/29/floods-in-europe-hungary-netherlands-and-lithuania-brace-themselves
I feel like there isn't a lot of middle room between "too much rain" and "too little rain" here.
Yup, we are experiencing more extreme weather situations. Until 2022 it was unusually dry, now 2023 and 2024 had relatively more rain, sometimes in a very short timespan causing flooding.