This mainly affects the east, as Manfred Spatzierer, chief meteorologist at the Austrian Severe Weather Center, explained. “The water level of Lake Neusiedl will undercut the negative record from 2003 in the coming days,” said Spatzierer.
At that time, Lake Neusiedl suffered from an exceptional dry period, so that at the end of September a water level of 115.05 meters above the Adriatic Sea was recorded. The lake only really recovered from this in 2006. The water level has been falling again since 2020. A few days ago, suction of sludge in the Bay of Rust began in order to increase the water column by 25 centimetres. The water supply from the Hungarian Moson-Danube is also planned.
As the Ubimet weather service stated in a broadcast, July has so far been far too dry – as far as precipitation is concerned – especially in East Tyrol and Carinthia as well as from Vorarlberg to the Hausruckviertel and in the eastern lowlands. In some regions, there was less than half of the usual amount of precipitation in a year-on-year comparison. The deviations were particularly striking at only ten percent of the target from the Lienz valley floor to the Gurktal Alps. In the federal capital, too, only 35 percent of the usual amount of precipitation was registered.
Source: Nachrichten
