Climate Hazards 5.08: Hazard Case Studies : Bantry floods

Media Articles

• RTÉ: ‘It’s like deja vu’ - Bantry businesses hit by floods

• RTÉ: Flood frustrations aired at minister during Bantry visit

• The Irish Times: Heavy rain floods parts of Cork amid Met Éireann orange weather warning

• The Irish Times: Cork floods: Clean-up operation after 65mm of rain recorded in some areas

• The Irish Times: Bantry floods: Minister pledges to speed up culvert works

• The Examiner: Major cleanup underway after status orange rain warning causes flooding in Cork

• The Examiner: Bantry business owners demand rates waiver after flooding

• Southern Star: Breaking: Flooding in Bantry and on several county roads as orange status remains in place

• Southern Star: PHOTOS: West Cork hit by localised flooding

Research

This paper isn’t about the Bantry floods, but rather discussing flooding in Germany which was caused by the same phenomenon.

• Ionita, M., Nagavciuc, V., and Guan, B. 2020 Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric rivers in inland flooding in central Europe. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24, 5125–5147. doi: 10.5194/hess-24-5125-2020

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