September floods break 127-year-old Czech record

A 127-year-old Czech record for the volume of rainfall in one day in one place was broken during the September floods, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reported. The new record was set in Loučná nad Desnou in the Šumperk region which had 386 millimetres of rain, or 386 litres of rainwater per square metre on September 14. The previous record, set in 1897, was about 40 millimetres less.