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Figure 2. HRES topography (m) centred on the worst affected areas, with sites discussed in the text labelled.
Figure 3. 24h rainfall totals to 06UTC 15 July - peak values were 164mm in Belgium, and 153mm in Germany (two dark red spots). Data cropped to appear only in the following lat-long boxes: [N:53.0, W:4.8, S:51.0, E:9.5] plus [N: 51.0, W: 3.0, S:47.6, E:9.5]. The provision of high density rainfall observations over Belgium by RMI (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium), through Thomas Vanhammel Vanhamel at RMI, is gratefully acknowledged.
On the 24h rainfall totals map in Figure 3 the two wettest places (dark red spots) were Jalhay in Belgium, in the High Fens (164mm) and Cologne in Germany (153mm). Very high values (>125mm) surround Jalhay. Although observation density near Cologne is less, making comparison with Jalhay difficult, on the basis of the corresponding plot on Figure 1 it seems that the Cologne peak was more localised.
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