Portugal - Floods

Spain - Floods: worst in 40 years.

Alps, Pyrenees, Norway & Spain - Temps risen by ½-1^oC in 15 years. Ice pack thawing. Risk of slope failures. Many high altitude buildings built with foundations set in ice.

Italy/Switzerland - Rains: up to 250mm in Alps.

Spain - Torrential rains

Warm anomoly: Ave temps up to 6^oC above normal.

France - Heavy rains

Italy - Heavy rains

Portugal - Heavy rains

Spain - Heavy rains

Italy - Floods: Rains, esp in Alps. Lakes Como & Maggiore overflowing. Follows long period of heavy rains, esp. in the Alps.

Switzerland - Very heavy rains in Alps.

France - Heavy rains.

Italy - Heavy rains.

Spain - Heavy rains.

Switzerland - Heavy rains.

Warm Anomoly: Up to 7^oC above normal.

Warm Anomoly: Up to 8^oC above normal.

France - Heavy rains.

Italy - Heavy rains, esp in north.

Portugal - Heavy rains, esp in north.

Spain - Heavy rains

Warm Anomoly: Up to 10^oC above normal.

Austria - Virtually no snow: Warmest winter since 1768. Ski season badly hit.

France - Heavy rains.

Norway - Heavy rains.

Portugal - Heavy rains, esp extreme north.

Spain - Heavy rains

Italy - Frozen rain making thin ice crust on snow. At keast 10 skiers killed.

Warm Anomoly: Up to 10^oC above normal.

Italy - Snows: Several feet fall for skiiers at last.

Portugal - Heavy rains, esp central and south.

Spain - Heavy rains

Warm Anomoly: Up to 5^oC above normal.

Germany - Heavy snowfall: Including over 400 car accidents in Berlin.

Italy - Heavy snows in north.

Portugal - Heavy Atlantic storms.

Spain - Northwest coast. Heavy Atlantic storms.

France - Brittany. Floodwaters reaching a record 5.4m.

Italy - Heavy snows in north. Avalanches.

Italy - Flood: Venice.

Portugal - Floods: extensive along west coast. Heavy rains & fierce winds.

Spain - Storms/landslides: Much of country. Torrential rains. & fierce winds. Heavy snowfall in Pyrenees

Switzerland - Heavy snows & avalanches.

Warm Anomoly: Up to 5^oC above normal.

Germany - Heavy snows. 400 car accidents in Berlin.

Italy - Floods in Venice due to bad weather. Worst in city’s history.

Warm Anomoly: At least  6^oC above normal.

Warm Anomoly: Up to  6^oC above normal.

Warm Anomoly: At least  7^oC above normal.

Portugal - Heavy rains

Spain - Heavy rains

Austria - Avalanches: heavy snow followed by thaw & rain. Much of western parts on level 4 of 5-level avalanche risk scale. 1-2 deaths.

Italy - Avalanches: at least 2 deaths.

Portugal - Floods/landslides: violent storms. At least 5 deaths. Cargo ship sank in 7m waves off coast. Eight ports closed.

Switzerland - Avalanches: 3 deaths, including 2 rescuers.

Austria - Avalanches

Germany - Heavy snows

Italy - Avalanches

Switzerland - Avalanches

Netherlands - Heavy snows

Spain - Torrential rains

Austria - Avalanches: at least 5 deaths. 68 mph winds caused new snow to compact over existing snow; very unstable conditions. Up to 20 in snow in one night. Ski resorts cut off.

Portugal - Heavy rains/flooding/thick fog: at least 70 deaths when bridge over very swollen Douro river collapsed.

Spain - Heavy rains/floods

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