Good afternoon all,

The water-level in the big Dutch rivers rises exponentially. Of course this
is due to the rainfall in the basins of both rivers.
According to the RIZA (National Institute of Water Management) this rising
is unusual but not exceptional; the amounts of water in the Rhine went up
from 1300 m3/s to 6500m3/s during the last week.

Something similar happened in February 1990 and March 1956. The latter has
the record -- a rising from 1.400 m3/s to 7.000 m3/s within 5 days. By the
end of that month that waterlevel had dropped to 1600 m3/s again.

This is a link to the RIZA-site. Click on the rivers to find graphs in which
the
waterlevel is given over the last week.
http://www.infocentrum-binnenwateren...tartpagina.asp


Wijke
SE Flevopolder
The Netherlands

Wijke Ruiter wrote in message ...
:The water-level in the big Dutch rivers rises exponentially ... the amounts
of water in the Rhine went up from 1300 m3/s to 6500m3/s during the last
week.
:This is a link to the RIZA-site. Click on the rivers to find graphs in
which
:the waterlevel is given over the last week.
:http://www.infocentrum-binnenwateren...tartpagina.asp

Photo of the Rhine near Lobith - near where it enters the Netherlands from
Germany - on the VWK homepage http://www.vwkweb.nl/ . Photo is dated
18th January and shows that the Rhine has overflowed its banks here.

Colin Youngs
Brussels