Stock Photo - 14 January 2022, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz: Jörg Kachelmann, Swiss meteorologist and CEO of Kachelmann GmbH, comes to the meeting of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament's committee of inquiry into the flood disaster with documents entitled ""Meteorological chronology of the flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate in July 2021"". The investigative committee is looking into the question of whether the extreme weather situation was foreseeable and why such destruction, with 135 deaths and hundreds injured, could have occurred. Ten experts from Germany and Great Britain have been invited. The public meeting will also look at the role played by climate change and geographical conditions. Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa. - Mainz/Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany