'I am afraid that the careless summers, as we knew them… will cease to exist,' the Greek prime minister said.
The immediate cause of the rain was a system called Storm Daniel, as. In the 13 hours between 12 am and 3 pm Tuesday, it dumped more than 25 inches of rain on the town of Pelion and its surroundings.
"We almost couldn't believe the forecast," Konstantinos Lagouvardos, the research director at the National Observatory of Athens, toldAnother town in the Pelion region, Zagora, saw 21 inches in 10 hours Tuesday, with more predicted to fall. "A historic flooding event is underway!" European Synchrotron Radiation Facility researcher Nahel BelgherzeOne Pelion resident, Iro Proia, shared a dramatic video on Facebook of cars being pushed out to sea by floodwaters.
Another hard-hit area was the city of Volos, which received approximately 10 times its monthly rainfall in less than 14 hours, asThe New York Timesreported. Another woman died close to Pelion."Everything saved from the fire we had in July has been destroyed by this bad weather," 49-year-old Christos Kleftakis"This is unprecedented—these severe weather events, the strength of the rain, the wind. I've never seen anything like that before.
In another example of weather whiplash, Istanbul's reservoirs had been at their lowest in nine years before the floods.
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