On Friday, in response to the deteriorating situation, the Crisis Information Centre of CBK PAN launched a special satellite monitoring system for the flood situation. This system detects areas where water has overflowed from riverbanks and where floodplains are forming. The operations are conducted in collaboration with the Polish-Finnish company ICEYE, which operates the largest civilian radar satellite constellation observing Earth. Data and reports are delivered every few hours to the State Fire Service, crisis management centers, and the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute.

The snowmelt and rains observed in recent days have contributed to rising water levels and local flooding in many places in Poland. On the basis of up-to-date Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical imagery provided by the Copernicus programme, the Crisis Information Centre CBK PAN has developed water extent maps for areas located in the Mazowieckie, Pomorskie and Wielkopolskie Provinces.

Copernicus satellites provide images showing the scale of flooding in the Dnieper valley and the surrounding area after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in the early morning of June 6, 2023.

As a result of persistent frosts, ice phenomena including ice jams have formed on many rivers and water reservoirs, which can cause flooding. Currently, a difficult situation prevails in the section of the Vistula River from the mouth of the Narew River to Płock, where a flood alert has been announced. Ice has also accumulated on Lake Włocławskie and may potentially threaten the dam in Włocławek.

Experts from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences used the satellite data to determine the extent of fire in the Biebrza National Park. Observations have shown that the fire area increased eightfold between 20 and 22 April 2020 reaching almost 4200 hectares.

On 27th and 28th August 2019 two collectors discharging sewage from left-bank Warsaw to the Czajka sawage treatment plant failed. Therefore, the discharge of wastewater from this part of the city straight to the Vistula River was started using the emergency sewage outlet at Farysa Street, north of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Bridge. The discharge of sewage into the river averages 3 m³ per second. The preliminary, direct cause of the failure is said to be delamination of the collectors.

Intensive rainfall and storms in the period of 20-22 May 2019 contributed to water level rising and local flooding in southern Poland. Today, the Government Centre for Security (RCB) issued 2nd and 3rd degree flood warning in Śląsk, Małopolska and Podkarpackie provinces. Based on the current Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical images provided by the Copernicus program, the Crisis Information Centre CBK PAN developed water extent maps for the most affected areas. Some of the maps were prepared as a result of activation launched by the Podkarpackie Voivode as part of a permanent agreement between the Podkarpackie Provincial Office and CBK PAN.

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Intensive rainfall in the period of 18-19 July 2018 contributed to water level rising and local flooding in the southern Małopolska region. Indirect effects of precipitation can be observed on Sentinel-2 satellite images.

February and March were characterized by large fluctuations in air temperature ranging from -13 °C to 10 °C. Alternating warming and cooling contributed to the long-term persistence of ice cover in water basins, which can be observed on Sentinel-2 satellite images.

At the beginning of January 2017 a strong wind from the north led to the so-called retreat in the Gulf of Gdansk and the Vistula Lagoon, which contributed to raising of the water level in the rivers and lakes in the delta of Vistula River.

On 25th April 2015 an earthquake of magnitude 7,9 on the Richter scale struck densely populated areas of Nepal. Crisis Information Centre SRC PAS monitors maps that are being created and supplies Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) whose rapid response medical team works on site of the incident.

During last days of December 2013 over Tatra Mountains there was hurricane wind that was even 200 km/h fast.

Every year from August until October, the area surrounding Lol and Jur rivers in South Sudan is visited by floods caused by torrential rainfalls that occur during the rainy season. These rivers flood the fields and villages depriving of home thousands of inhabitants of the state of Northern Bahr El-Ghazal.