> What about acknowledging the effects of improper land management (forestry, rivers, etc)?
Those are indeed a factor, and European nations as well as the EU have started programs to counter those 20th century artefacts (see "Renaturation"). But the amount of rainfall itself (measured) was extremely high, by any standard. The mediterranean sea was between 2 and 4 deg C warmer than usual, causing increased evaporation and in turn increased precipitation across Europe. (This has been widely reported)
I think that’s more of a topic for impacts to places like California and the Gulf Coast that have been heavily built up over the past fifty years despite their known issues with fires and hurricanes, vs the places in Europe impacted by these floods that have been occupied for many hundreds of years.
Totally agree, climate change is highlighting the places we messed up but had enough stable weather patterns to hide it.
Lots of areas are getting absolutely flooded around Europe and it's basically because they drainer or changed the water courses, as well as making everything flat and smooth for (over)farming.
And then you get a week of rains and everything goes tits up.
Having a look at the "Maximum of 1-day precipitation" dataset it is clear that it has increased greatly over the past decades which results - among other things - to flooding
If you are not the lazy one - what are those proper land managements? There were trees falling (not just in the cities) in Slovakia because it rained in one day like in a whole year.
My issue is the "it's the climate" narrative takes all the coverage and distracts us from a lot of the low-hanging fruit things we can solve (forest brush, beaver damns in Poland, etc) as well as other environmental issues.
What do you think "ever recorded" means? I'll take a stab: "the most rain we could find credibly recorded in the data we have currently available to us."
If you have other data you should consider sharing it with them.
