Just a few weeks ago, massive rainfall caused by storm "Boris" led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. Analysis by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows that in a world without current levels of global warming, Boris would deposit roughly nine percent less precipitation. Such conclusions can be drawn thanks to a new modeling approach called "storylines". How it can be used in near real time has just been presented in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment. The AWI team also released a freely available online tool that allows users to identify the fingerprints of climate change in current extreme weather events and create their own comparison graphics. (More on eurasiareview.com)