STRANGE CONTINENT

ULRICH MAGIN rounds up the Euro-weirdness, from mad weather and bad cows to a BVM beheading

HEAVY WEATHER This summer has been one marked by natural disasters throughout Europe. We had an earthquake in Montenegro, a quake of magnitude 3.1 in Friuli, Italy, floods in Germany and Switzerland, landslides in the Misox Valley, Switzerland, in June and at Lake Garda and in Vorarlberg, Austria, at the end of July, record-breaking temperatures in Greece and Spain with the highest possible heat warning in Rome, Florence and Bologna in Italy. Weather extremes have become common, and floods caused by heavy rains continued in central Europe all through July. There was geophysical turmoil as well: in July, the Sicilian volcanoes Etna and Stromboli both erupted, with Stromboli suffering one of the most violent eruptions of recent years. Then, Etna again erupted spectacularly on 4 August. L’Arena, 18 July; Kölner…

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