Athens [Greece], September 29: A second powerful storm turned streets into rivers in central Greece on Thursday.
Storm Elias caused extensive flooding in the central port city of Volos and surrounding regions and left hundreds stranded in villages in the region.
The city was only recovering from a Mediterranean storm that triggered flash floods earlier this month and left 16 dead.
The previous storm caused more than €2 billion ($2.3 billion) in damage to farms and infrastructure, authorities said.
A second powerful storm turned streets into rivers in central Greece on Thursday.
Storm Elias caused extensive flooding in the central port city of Volos and surrounding regions and left hundreds stranded in villages in the region.
The city was only recovering from a Mediterranean storm that triggered flash floods earlier this month and left 16 dead.
The previous storm caused more than €2 billion ($2.3 billion) in damage to farms and infrastructure, authorities said.
The flooding follows the hottest summer on record and massive wildfires that devoured forests and homes across swathes of the country, killing more than a dozen people.
Greece's conservative government led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for the trail of climate-related disasters, with Mitsotakis earlier this month vowing to act to mitigate climate risks.
Climate researchers have repeatedly sounded the alarm about reducing harmful emissions as global temperatures rise and exacerbate weather events.
Researchers earlier this month found that climate change had magnified the intensity
of the Mediterranean storm that pounded Greece and also tore through Libya.
Source: Times of Oman
