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00:00Residents of the Czech Republic have been working to assess the damage caused by floods
00:05devastating Central Europe.
00:07Most of the country has been affected by floods, but the situation has been worst in two northeastern
00:12regions where authorities declared a state of emergency.
00:16A number of towns and cities were submerged on Sunday, with thousands of people evacuated.
00:22On Monday, waters began to recede, leaving behind destroyed bridges and damaged roads.
00:28These floods are definitely worse than those of 1997.
00:36Two meters of water ran through the street, and there was a whirlpool that damaged the house.
00:40Now it may need to be taken down.
00:43There have been many, many ruined cars floating down the street.
00:46It's terrible.
00:47People will have a lot of work to do."
00:53As torrential rain from Storm Boris continues to pounce Central Europe with record rainfall,
00:58rivers have been bursting their banks, also devastating Austria, Poland and Romania.
01:05Climatologist Christophe Caroux told France 24 that climate change is having a complex
01:10effect on how often storms such as this will occur.
01:13The first ingredient for a storm is the descent of cold air, which is much less likely in
01:21a changing climate.
01:23Thus the formation of storms as intense as this is also much less likely.
01:28But conversely, when such a storm does form, its impact in terms of precipitation will
01:33be much stronger.
01:35This is because climate change means that there is an increase in the amount of water
01:39contained in the atmosphere that must come down somewhere.
01:47A low-pressure, high-humidity area continues to feed Storm Boris, which might have Slovakia
01:53and Hungary next in its sights.