We are wrapping up our live coverage now but here is a summary of the main points from today.

• Several European nations are mounting large-scale emergency response operations after Storm Boris brought extreme flooding to central and eastern states
• At least seven people are known to have died so far, including a firefighter in Austria, while others are missing
• Rivers in the Czech Republic have broken their banks, houses and streets are submerged, and the power has gone out across whole regions
• A dam was breached in Poland, sending a wave of water through the south-western town of Stronie Slaski

• Poland's PM says his government will declare a state of natural disaster in order to mobilise EU resources

• Despite ongoing emergency efforts, residents and officials in already flood-hit areas bracing themselves as more rain is forecast in the coming days

Thanks for joining us. You can read read more about the floods in Europe here, as well as an an explanation of why the weather is so severe here

Volunteers are starting the clean-up in Romania's Galati region after flooding and torrential rain.

The country was hit by Storm Boris over the last few days and five people have been confirmed as dead in the region.

Some of the areas most badly affected appear to be clustered in central Europe around the border between Poland and the Czech Republic and towards the Austrian capital Vienna.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the worst flooding there in almost three decades.

Hungary and south-east Germany are also affected and flood warnings remain in place for parts of the Danube.

Floodwaters have also caused severe damage in Romania, which is further south-west in eastern Europe.

It all comes after days of torrential rain from Storm Boris.

Rob Cameron
Reporting from the Czech Republic

Troubky - a village in North Moravia, in the Czech Republic - has called on all citizens to evacuate their homes as the river Becva reaches dangerous levels.

Troubky was virtually obliterated by flash floods in 1997 - some 150 homes were destroyed and nine people died, making it the worst hit community in the country. This time the authorities are taking no chances, and have ordered people to evacuate.

Meteorologists warn that while rivers in the western half of the Czech Republic have mostly reached their highest levels, the risk of severe flooding will remain in North Moravia and Silesia well into Monday and perhaps beyond.

The ground is so saturated that landslides are also possible, they say.

Adam Easton
Reporting from Poland

As we reported below, Poland's prime minister has said his government will declare a state of natural disaster in response to the floods.

The declaration also allows the government to mobilise money and resources within the European Union’s RescEU mechanism, external – a fleet of planes and helicopters, medical stockpiles and field hospitals that can respond to health emergencies.

This reserve also includes items to help with transport and energy supplies.

Adam Easton
Reporting from Poland

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has said his government will declare a state of natural disaster as it tackles the devastating effects of the ongoing floods.

"After consulting with the relevant ministers and services, I have instructed the preparation of a Council of Minister’s regulation to introduce a state of natural disaster,” Tusk wrote on X.

A state of natural disaster gives the government greater control to counter and resolve the effects of the disaster, which may involve limiting certain freedoms and rights.

Adam Easton
Reporting from Poland

Local authorities in south-west Poland have urgently appealed to residents to evacuate their homes because floodwaters are threatening to breach another dam.

In a video posted on his Facebook page, the mayor of Prudnik, in Opole province, Grzegorz Zawiślak, a country fire chief and a local Prudnik official, appealed to residents of the villages of Moszczanka, Łaka Prudnicka and parts of the town of Prudnik (population 21,237) to immediately evacuate.

"The appeal is very serious, don’t waste your time on dilemmas, you have to leave. If the dam is breached, your homes will be destroyed and your life threatened,” Radosław Roszkowski, a local official from Prudnik said in the video.

The men said they had information that an embankment in the nearby village of Jarnołtówek has been cut through, threatening the integrity of the village dam.

Earlier, a dam in Stronie Śląskie. Lower Silesia, was breached by floodwaters, releasing a powerful wave of water through the town, destroying at least one house, and damaging many other properties. The town was cut off by road and the military are using a helicopter to evacuate residents there.

Chris Fawkes
BBC Weather presenter

A huge amount of rain has already fallen in central Europe in the last few days.

About 435mm (17 inches) of rain has fallen at Jeseník, in the Czech Republic in the last three days – this is extreme rainfall that has resulted in severe flooding.

There is more rain to come through Sunday night and Monday too with river levels continuing to rise.

The weather will improve from Tuesday with much drier conditions, however it will take many days for this flood water to work down Europe’s river catchments – and that means for some communities, the flooding will get far worse even after the rain has stopped falling.

Rob Cameron
Reporting from the Czech Republic

As much as 80% of the Silesian town of Krnov is underwater, according to the deputy mayor Miroslav Binar.

Binar told Czech Television's regional studios in Ostrava that his town, with a population of 23,000, was no longer capable of co-ordinating rescue work, and was relying chiefly on the Moravian-Silesian regional authority for help.

Moravia-Silesia regional governor Josef Belica said that the army would be deployed to deliver drinking water, food and hygiene products, as much of the town remained inaccessible even to the fire brigade.

Helicopters were being used to winch people needing medical attention to safety.

Rescue and evacuation operations have been taking place across Europe today after Storm Boris deluged swathes of the continent with rain and flooding.

You can get an idea of the scale of the destruction and the challenge facing the emergency services from the footage that has been filmed of the flooding, that you can watch above.

Image source, Reuters

We've been hearing from residents affected by flooding in Lipova-Lazne, in the east of the Czech Republic.

One local resident says he's seen fridges floating on the water and children's shoes, adding that the internet and telephones aren't working.

"Now we are waiting for who will show up, whether the army will help us," he tells the Reuters news agency.

Another resident says he travelled to the area to see his family but says they are "cut off from the road, so I unfortunately can't get to their home".

"I will to see what happens, if this stops," he says. "Nobody knows."

Adam Easton
Reporting from Poland

Up to 20cm (7.87 inches) of rainfall has fallen in the past 24 hours in places in four provinces in southern Poland, home to the country’s mountainous regions.

The authorities are focusing their efforts however in two provinces next to the Czech border, the Kłodzko county in Lower Silesia and east of there, surrounding the town of Głuchołazy in Opole province.

In the town of Kłodzko, the floodwater is as high as two metres (6.56 ft) deep in some parts, according to the mayor, Michał Piszko. There’s no longer running water in the taps and the gas supply may end in a few hours, Piszko told the state news agency PAP.

The military are using boats to evacuate people who have agreed to leave their homes. Others haven’t, taking refuge on the second and third floors of buildings, the mayor said.

Meanwhile the water in the town’s river is getting higher and higher, swollen by the floodwater cascading down from the hillside town of Stronie Śląskie, where a dam wall was breached. “Only the rescue operation remains,” Piszko said, and “the supply of water and food to residents”.

Stronie Śląskie is cut off by land and military helicopters continue to evacuate its residents. Video posted on X by the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management showed an enormous wave of brown water destroying a house in the town.

Meanwhile, in Głuchołazy, the floodwaters are stabilizing, the town’s mayor Paweł Szymkowicz told PAP. Earlier two bridges, one of them temporary, were swept away by the rushing water, flooding the market square. Szymkowicz said residents who wished to be evacuated should make their way to the roof of their buildings and wave a white flag.

Image source, EPA

Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, says he's ordered the country's minister of finance to "prepare funds for emergency aid and flood damage removal".

In a post on X, external, Tusk adds that he has asked the country's minister of defence to send additional forces to the "threatened areas".

"We will not leave anyone to their own devices," he says.

Sarah Rainsford
Reporting from near Prudnik in Poland

Roads around the worst flooded areas here are closed. Some by police, others by local residents who are trying to pump water out of their basements - and placing sandbags around their homes and businesses, bracing for more to come.

The new focus of attention in this area is the town of Nysa. The main road through there is completely flooded. The water is already above window height.

The town is beside a reservoir and residents are extremely worried about news that a dam has broken not far away in Stronie Śląskie and a wave of water is heading their way.

The mayor has instructed people to evacuate, move to higher floors - or higher ground.

Rob Cameron
Reporting from the Czech Republic

The Czech authorities have again pleaded with people to heed calls to evacuate their homes if called to do so.

In a post on X, external they said the police and fire service knew what they were doing and if local authorities called on people to leave their homes and move to dry land, they should do so immediately. Those who refused to do so may find themselves having to be saved by helicopter, they said.

Police posted video of someone being winched to safety in the Jesenik area.

Image source, Czech Army

While Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova said on X:, external

"Please tell those fools who still haven't come to terms with the help we've sent to Ukraine that yes, we do have enough helicopters. Thank you", and shared a Czech Army video showing an air force helicopter being deployed in the floods.

Meanwhile, more towns and villages in the Moravia and Silesia region have ordered evacuations. Fire chief Vladimir Vlcek told Czech Television a total of 10,500 people had so far been evacuated, while several hundred had been rescued by dinghy or helicopter.

Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

• A firefighter in Austria has been killed while trying to help people affected by the catastrophic floods that are sweeping across Central Europe
• One person has died in Poland, and a further death in Romania means that the number of fatalities confirmed there has risen to five
• Several people remain unaccounted for in the Czech Republic
• A dam has been breached in Poland, sending a wave of water through the town of Stronie Slaski
• The province which surrounds Vienna, in Austria, has been declared a disaster area by authorities
• And residents in many flood-hit areas are bracing themselves for more damage as further rain is forecast

Sarah Rainsford
BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent, reporting from Poland

We are heading southwest from Warsaw, approaching the area of Poland that’s underwater.

All the way down, the sun has been out and the roads are dry. But reports from closer to the Czech border are increasingly worrying.

The mayor of Klodzko has announced that his town has now "lost the battle" against the floods. Hundreds of people have been evacuated. The situation is described as "critical".

Kamila Solowska, who’s from Glucholazy, another critical location further south, has told the BBC her family live near the river, and the town’s main bridge has been destroyed.

She sent the video her family filmed of a caravan floating down the road. Another shows chocolate brown water gushing past their home, almost at the level of the wooden garden fence.

Kamila is not there herself but was in touch with relatives until their phone batteries died. There is no electricity.

“All the streets around are flooded. It’s not even possible to leave the house now. The water is too high. They are waiting and hoping for evacuation by boat or helicopter,” she told us.

On higher ground in the town, people are ok – for now.

Another woman, whose parents are from Jarnoltowek village, tells us they’ve been evacuated – along with the whole village, some 800 residents.

The floods have already spread as far as Nysa, further north and further from the mountains. One family, who live near a reservoir, have sent us pictures of water pouring into their basement. It’s not raining right now, but more is forecast.

Everyone in this region remembers the terrible floods of 1997 and worry about what more is to come.

Tereza Tomanova
BBC News

People in flood-hit areas of the southern Czech Republic are bracing themselves for more disruption as further rain is forecast.

Marek Joch lives in a small village called Lipov and tells the BBC these are the worst floods since 1997.

"Lipov is currently closed from all sides, it is impossible to get here. Unfortunately, the next wave is still to come.

"Everyone is trying to clean up as quickly as possible to prevent further large spills from the river, unfortunately, no one knows when the water will recede, how it will all look here and what the consequences will be.

"The forecast says it should rain for at least two more days. We still have to survive until Tuesday, this is not the end.”

Image source, Barbora Kozumplíková

Adam Easton
Reporting from Poland

The river in Głuchołazy has broken its banks, sweeping away a temporary bridge and flooding the town centre.

In a dramatic appeal, the mayor has urged residents to relocate to higher ground, saying “we’re drowning”.

Poland and the Czech Republic are facing some of their worst flooding since 1997 when more than 100 people were killed in both countries. In Poland, the amount of rainfall has exceeded that in 1997, Prime Minister Tusk said.

Those floods left close to 40% of the regional capital, Wrocław, underwater. Tusk said that infrastructure built since then, including anti-flood dams and overflow reservoirs, should prevent a repeat of that disaster.

As we reported earlier, water is cascading into towns after a bridge was destroyed in Sronie Slaskie.

Image source, Getty Images

Bethany Bell
BBC News

The governor of the province of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, says a firefighter has died while pumping out a flooded cellar.

She said the whole of the province has been declared a catastrophe zone.

Austrian Railways, OEBB, say no trains are running between Vienna and Linz. The main A1 western motorway has flooded near the town of St Pölten and closed at the entrance to Vienna.

Parts of the Vienna underground have been closed, as the Wienfluss river levels rise.

In a post on X, Austria‘s Chancellor Karl Nehammer said: "The storm situation has worsened in the last few hours…The storm situation in the federal states is very serious."

Image source, Reuters