Global warming is making disasters like the current one in Styria more frequent, says Georg Pistotnik, severe weather expert at GeoSphere Austria. Weather patterns like the current one get stuck for weeks at a time.

An exceptionally large amount of energy was released explosively on Saturday evening north of Graz. "The thunderstorm cell was able to draw in moist air from a very large area and then release it locally as rainfall," explains Georg Pistotnik, severe weather expert at GeoSphere Austria. Many factors need to come together for such a constellation to occur, but for the climate researcher the background is clear: "There's a very strong climate change component to these events."

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By Günter Pilch