Greece’s record rainfall and flash floods are part of a trend – across the Mediterranean, the weather is becoming more dangerous

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Greece’s record rainfall and flash floods are part of a trend – across the Mediterranean, the weather is becoming more dangerous

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Flooding in Central Athens
Flooding in the Monastiraki district of Athens

Ioanna Stamataki is a lecturer in hydraulics and water engineering at the University of Greenwich in the UK

Recent images of the devastating flash floods caused by Storm Daniel in Greece hit close to home literally and figuratively. As a Greek who has comple, Greek rain fall National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr, CC BY-SA, Greece’s daily rainfall record was broken with 754 mm of rain in the village of Zagora – more than double the UK’s equivalent record. National Observa