Heavy rain spurs flood warnings

Heavy overnight rain in northern Moravia and Silesia led to flood alerts being declared along many rivers late on Tuesday. Fire fighters were called out on around 160 incidents. By Wednesday morning the worst affected locality was on the Olše river at Český Těšín where a level three flood warning applied until the early afternoon. The local crisis committee has convened there but evacuations have so far been avoided. The national weather office predicts that most heavy rainfall should die out during the day but there could still be heavy falls on the Beskydy mountains.