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Weather forecasters in Austria are expecting significant rainfall in the coming days, with potential floods and landslides, according to the state meteorological institute Geosphere Austria on Friday. From Friday to Tuesday, 100 to 200 millilitres of rain could fall across most of the Alpine country, rising to some 300 millilitres in parts of Lower Austria and Upper Austria. Emergency services along the Danube are preparing for rare levels of flooding, on a scale usually seen only once in a decade or less, according to the authorities. People set up mobile flood protection systems and filled s…