As reported earlier flash flooding affected parts of France and Belgium after more than 50mm of rain fell in around 1 hour on 02 June 2021 Stormy weather later affected areas of the Netherlands where some minor flash flooding was reported in Deelen As much as 42.9 mm of rain fell in about 1 hour in Deelen on 03 June 2021 Heavy rain of over 60 mm was reported in Recken op der Mess saw more than 40 mm of rain in 1 hour on 03 June More than 180,000 lightning strikes were reported on 04 June Voelkersleier in Bavaria recorded 59.2 mm of rain in 24 hours to 06 June A serious road accident occurred in Düsseldorf after a young cyclist was hit by lightning One person died and 3 were injured after weather-related accident at a construction site in Stuttgart Flash flooding was reported in parts of Thuringia The Fire Service was called out to hundreds of interventions mostly to attend to flooded streets and cellars Some of the most severe flooding struck in Mosbach where local streams overflowed sweeping away vehicles and prompting at least 3 rescues The Civil Protection Directorate in Croatia reported that severe flash flooding affected areas of Požega-Slavonia Zagreb and Bjelovar-Bilogora counties 06 to 07 June As much as 70 mm of rain had fallen in some locations The worst affected areas were the town of Požega and the settlements of Drškovci Vidovci and Dervišaga in Požega-Slavonia County Civil Protection said homes and roads were flooded and small landslides also reported In the settlement of Vidovci the electrical network was turned off due to the danger for firefighters Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The psychologist discusses Agatha Christie’s Marple changing research culture and the history of alphabets in 1941 and moved to London to study clinical psychology in 1964 She is regarded as a pioneer of research into autism and child dyslexia I was playing with a glass perfume bottle shaped like a tennis ball It slipped onto the dressing table and broke Gretel of “Hansel and Gretel” was an obvious heroine for me because she was so clever When I became an adult it dawned on me that the witch was the heroine because she must have been ingenious to have built a gingerbread house that you could live in At school I learned that there is a fear of clever women One manifestation of that fear is the idea of witches [See also: Lynda La Plante Q&A: “My Mastermind specialist subject? Serial killers”] Kevin Mitchell’s Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are It’s an argument for sheer randomness in all the factors that shape us as we grow up and who is the only historical figure I know to have given up power voluntarily What would be your “Mastermind” specialist subject I have done quite a lot of research into literacy and reading so I could witness the first experiments at the Royal Society Although as a woman I would not have been allowed entry unless I had sneaked in with the visit of the formidable Margaret Cavendish in May 1667 [See also: Annie Macmanus Q&A: “I’ve often been a woman in a man’s world”] Emma Wesley has already done it as a double portrait which recognises that I am part of a husband-and-wife team What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received I campaign for something called “slow science” an idea I hope will change research culture The motto has been credited to Dieter Rams I wince at the excessive emphasis on emotional reactions I think factual reporting ought to be neutral If you need that in order to get facts about what’s really important in the world What single thing would make your life better I wish I was able to move without pesky joint pain [See also: Neil Gaiman Q&A: “As long as there’s a Tardis, all’s right with the world”] It would allow me to tell others about exciting discoveries psychologists have shown that we can rely on our brains’ optimism bias “Two Heads: Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains” by Uta Frith Chris Frith and Alex Frith is published by Bloomsbury This article appears in the 20 Apr 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Law and Disorder