Century floods in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia

“According to experts, the storms of the last few days are a foretaste of our future climate. The Augsburg climate expert Harald Kunstmann explains in the BR24 topic of the day why - and which two phenomena of climate change are currently at work.

For Professor Harald Kunstmann, as for most other experts, there is no doubt: Climate change has its share in the current weather events, from which Hof and Landshut have recently suffered in Bavaria and which have been in parts of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate since yesterday Transform disaster areas. He made this clear in the BR 24 topic of the day.

Mainly responsible: water vapor and the jet stream ... "

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