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The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece rose to 10 people Friday, while another four remained missing, the country's civil protection minister said. Rescue crews in helicopters and ...
Rain totals in southern Italy have not been as extreme as in Greece, but amounts of 1.15 inches (29.2 mm) have been observed across the higher terrain of Sila National Park.
Greece’s weather service said the Pilion region was forecast to receive about 650 to 700 millimeters (25.5 to 27.5 inches) of rain over Tuesday and Wednesday, while 550-600 millimeters were ...
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
On 5 September, flooding in Thessaly, Greece, killed at least one person. [21] On the same day, the village of Zagora received 759 millimetres (29.9 in) of rain, 55 times more than the country's average rainfall for the same month. [22] Portaria also recorded a new rainfall record of 884 mm (34.8 in).
More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said, after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and ...
In October 2022, Crete, the largest island of Greece was hit by destructive floods. [1] The floods were triggered by a large thunderstorm and heavy rains. [2] Two fatalities were reported along with 150 millimetres (5.9 in) of rain falling within less 12 hours. [3]
Fierce rainstorms battered neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria on Tuesday, triggering flooding that caused at least seven deaths, including two holidaymakers swept away by a torrent that raged ...