A stalled storm dropped three feet of rain over four days on the Thessaly region, triggering extensive flooding. Following weeks of heat waves and fires, torrential rains unleashed widespread flooding in Central Greece in early September 2023. Over the course of the four-day storm that began on S
satellite mission. Due to averaging of the satellite data, local rainfall rates may be significantly higher when measured from the ground.that as of September 6, large parts of Thessaly had been flooded. On that day, 331 millimeters fell on the city of Karditsa, which is about 100 kilometers inland from Volos. Athens received 55 millimeters of rain, according to Meteo.
The same low-pressure system produced deadly flooding in eastern Bulgaria and western Turkey on September 5, but eased by the next day. In Greece, the stormSome of Meteo’s meteorological stations stopped transmitting due to power outages, but over the four-day storm, they recorded the mostEarth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using IMERG data from the Global Precipitation Mission at NASA/GSFC.
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