If you follow my updates, you know that every Saturday I hike in mountains. Yesterday was the second Saturday this year without mountains.
A huge low pressure system, born in northern Italy moved northward and brought enormous rainfalls. Ask @ervin-lemark about Slovenia and @bucipuci what it brought to Czechia on Thursday and Friday respectively.
Saturday was Poland’s turn to face it.
On Friday evening I was frantically browsing weather forecasts and satelitę maps looking for areas with less rain. The rainfall was coming from south west and all our mountains are in the south. I looked eastward trying to get ahead of the front, but the best place I could find was 4hrs driving one way and I would still get wet. I am not averse to hiking in rain, have done it before, but there is a difference between rainfall and flush of water.
So I cancelled my trip and instead walked in my town. There was literally one hour during the day with lesser rain.
See my cover photo - the benches were originally set BY the river, not IN the river. That’s how much water we got in just one day.
Ps. Writing this update on Sunday - rains gone, clear skies. News say that areas in the south of Poland received 100 liters of rainfall per square meter. That’s a month’s worth of rain in one day!
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