Morava Valley

Thunderstorm systems over Romania are moving in a north-easterly altitudinal current towards Serbia, i.e. towards its north-eastern part.
"In the next two hours, rain and local showers with thunder are expected in the north of Vojvodina, the south of Banat, Srem and western Serbia," announced the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute (RHMZ) in an announcement published at 4 p.m.

On the morning of June 3 last year, village head Djordje Matijasevic stood on the riverbank. It was raining heavily.

In nearby Guca, where hundreds of thousands of revellers gather for a raucous trumpet festival every August, the river at around 6 a.m. was 65 cm high. Three hours later it stood at 2.29 metres and by midday the water had risen to 4.40 metres. 

Taking part in the meeting was also a delegation of the US company Bechtel, while the topic was a project to build the Pojate-Preljina highway, the government announced.

An ambitious project being considered to establish a vertical link between the Danube, Europe's second-longest river, and Greece's Aegean coast by a navigable route via the rivers Morava and Vardar/Axios, may seem like a prospect of colossal proportions by European standards, but its development cannot be ruled out as it would serve the interests of China, an undisputed powerhouse trader.

Municipal flood alerts have been declared in 12 more municipalities in Serbia - Novi Pazar, Kraljevo, Topola, Pozega, Bajina Basta, Ivanjica, Raska, Ljig, Raca, Kosjeric, Prijepolje and Trstenik.

Serbia's Interior ministry declared that around 710 households have been affected and that 118 people have been evacuated.

BELGRADE - The female spotted eagle named Iti, member of a globally endangered species, makes a stopover in Serbia during the spring migration to Estonia for the sixth year in a row.

Instead of heading straight north across Bulgaria after flying over Turkey, Iti chooses to take the longer route and visits Serbia instead, the Serbian Bird Protection and Study Society says.

Part of Ibar regional road lane collapses

KRALJEVO -- A landslide has collapsed a part of one lane on the Ibar regional road near Bogutovac on the Kraljevo-Raska section, restricting traffic to only one lane.

B92's reporter said on Monday that the landslide was still active and endangering the other lane as well.

KRALJEVO - Part of the embankment on the River Ribnica near Kraljevo, built to provide permanent flood protection to homes along the riverbanks, has been washed away by a swollen river because local firm Zapadna Morava had done a poor constructing job.