The European Commission has approved an advance payment of 25.3 million euros to Greece “to ease the financial burden of reconstruction efforts” following Storm Daniel in September 2023.
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Temperatures will plummet from Saturday along the northern and mountainous regions of the country, the National Meteorological Service has said.
Emergency traffic measures were implemented on the Patra-Athens highway on Saturday near Eliona, northern Peloponnese, due to anticipated hazardous weather conditions.
A warning message from the 112 emergency number was sent to mobile phones on Saturday in Epirus, Western Greece, and the Ionian regions regarding an upcoming storm, expected to hit in the coming hours.
European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski is scheduled to visit on Thursday the region of Karditsa, one of the areas that flooded during massive storms in the last three weeks.
Bad weather eased in central Greece on Friday leaving widespread flooding and infrastructure damage across the farming region, which has been battered by two powerful storms in less than a month.
One of Crete’s most popular tourism and trekking sites, the Samaria Gorge, will be closed on Friday.
In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime.
The huge amounts of water that fell on Volos during Storm Elias flooded the local hospital and caused two streams to overflow on Thursday, making this the second time the city is called upon to deal with the aftermath of torrential rain in just 20 days.
A search and rescue operation was underway off the coast of northern Evia on Thursday to find the passengers of a helicopter that crashed into the sea earlier this morning.
The Armed Forces were assisting the efforts to deal with the consequences of the latest storm that is pounding central Greece, Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday.
A total of 18 people in the city of Volos who were rescued by the Fire Brigade after being trapped in their homes during the storm late on Wednesday, spent the night in the ferry Super Star anchored in the port.
Crews were struggling to restore power and water supply to a large part of the city of Volos in central Greece on Thursday after torrential rain hit several parts of the country, just a few weeks after another mega-storm flooded the same region.
The region of Fthiotida in central Greece is on alert after Spercheios River burst its banks near the village of Frantzi, south of the city of Lamia, flooding adjacent agricultural lands.
The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) made an announcement on Wednesday, pledging over 50 million euros for the reconstruction efforts in response to the devastating floods that struck Greece’s Thessaly region.
Heavy rainfall from the Elias weather system has struck parts of northern Evia, Greece’s second largest island located east of Athens, where over 50,000 hectares of forest were devastated by massive wildfires in 2021.
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