Stock Photo - 14 January 2022, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz: The expert opinion of Bernhard Mühr, meteorologist from Karlsruhe, on the Ahr floods in July 2021 is on the table ahead of its hearing in the session of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament's committee of inquiry. 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 of injuries 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