Europe is experiencing unprecedented disasters! Severe flood and storm in Cumbria, UK

Natural disaster 29 October 2021. Europe is experiencing unprecedented disasters! Severe flood and storm in Cumbria, UK Rain has continued to fall overnight in Cumbria after about 40 properties were flooded and road and rail travel were hit on Thursday. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning, meaning some disruption is possible, and the Environment Agency has nine flood warnings in place. Two areas of Europe nearly 2,000 miles apart have seen exceptional rainfall amounts and flooding this week, these two areas are Cumbria and Sicily. Opposite ends of Europe, with quite different climates and affected by quite different weather systems, albeit they both share the same antecedent to flooding of a persistent supply of warm moist air.