Heavy rain has raised water on the river Rhine in Germany to levels allowing cargo vessels to sail fully loaded, data from German inland waterways agency WSA said on Wednesday.
    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      91·
      11 months ago

      Reporting from north eastern Germany: there’s tons of water going in the ground here. More than I personally like. It’s been raining on/off for two weeks straight.

        • SevFTW@feddit.deEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          I read recently that Germany is missing so much groundwater in some regions, that it would have to rain constantly for a year and a half just to get refilled.

          ZDF Article (German)

      • ahornsirup@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        Which is long overdue. Yeah, it’s not exactly inviting “let’s spend the day outside” summer weather, but we’ve effectively had several years of drought, the rain is desperately needed.