Homes and roads have been damaged by fresh floods in Greece just weeks after the country was battered by deadly storms.
Torrential rain swept across swathes of central Greece on Wednesday – with power cuts in the coastal city of Volos and the island of Evia.
At least eight villages were evacuated late on Wednesday as floodwaters rose.
Meanwhile, road traffic was banned in Volos, a city of around 140,000, with residents urged to stay indoors.
Around three weeks ago, a catastrophic flood has killed over 20 thousand people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, sweeping away entire neighbourhoods with their residents and washing many bodies out to sea.
The Lebanese people are anticipating the Greek storm to move into the eastern basin of the Mediterranean and reach Lebanon. The main question, here, is whether the rainfall storm will lead to floods.
Head of Estimates Branch at the Meteorological Department, Beirut International Airport, Mohammad Kanj, told Al-Manar Website that it is too early to talk about torrential rains in Lebanon during the coming days, especially since the storm will lose its strength when it arrives from southern Greece and Italy to this region.
“It appears that the rains are just beginning and do not appear to be torrential.”
Kanj added that the peak of the rainfall will be on Tuesday, adding that it would be very early to forecast floods.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
