and of the people's livelihoods of the areas that were burnt. extreme rainfall has dominated the headlines too. london injuly and flash flooding after a month's worth of rain fell in just a few hours. as the same weather systems swept east across europe it strengthened, turning disruption into disaster. in germany, floods wiped out entire villages. here, the ground just fell away under the weight of water in the night. over 100 people died in these floods in germany alone. awful scenes from china injuly with flooding trapping people in an underground metro system, where a year's worth of rain fell in just three days. in the usa, death and destruction in tennessee in august as over 400 millimetres of rain falls