Perhaps global warming?

This headlines are ONLY FROM TODAY'S NEWS:

- "Santarém activates local flood plan - many places can become isolated";
- "Rain isolates place with 100 inhabitants in Messines";
- "Between 100 and 150 people lose their home in Tomar due to the floods"
- "EN122 between Beja and Mértola cut to traffic due to the floods"
- "Trains stop circulating between Fátima and Caxarias, due to the damage caused by the intensive rain to the railways "

Source: Público Online

And we are still in 2006....time to wake up?