Thessaly is tested again – where bad weather hits Elias

When they were still measuring their injuries in Thessaly from the deadly bad weather Daniel, the new wave of Elias had already begun to affect different areas, causing the first problems.

Already in the first hour of the storm in Trikala, the main street turned into a river and drivers were looking for escape routes, trikalavoice.gr reported.

Larisa is also expected to receive rain in the next few hours.

Bad weather “Elias” began to affect Curditsa PE from the afternoon, starting from the mountainside. According to karditsalive.net, as soon as the bad weather started, the first minor problems occurred, mainly landslides in some parts of the road network, the most important on the Petrodos – Kali Komi road.

There are heavy rainfall reports from mountainous and semi-mountainous communities and the municipalities of Mouzaki and Limni Plastira, with events now extending to the lowlands, where significant amounts of rain are expected overnight and tomorrow.

According to his records meteo.gr/EAA’s network of automated weather stations Strong events up to 21:45 are observed in western Thessaly, Fthiotida and northern Peloponnese. Bertoli Trikala recorded the highest rainfall amounting to 109 mm.

Heavy hail damage in Kalavrita

Bad weather affected the region of Achaia early on. Heavy hail damaged cars in Kalavrita, according to pelop.gr.

Also, heavy rain caused problems on a section of the Patras-Athens highway above Aegelia. According to “Olympia Odos”, the traffic flow towards Athens was stopped due to a landslide from the Elionas toll road to the Kalavrita junction. Engines are on the scene and working to solve the problem, while according to “Olympia Otos”, after the engines first cleared one of the traffic lanes, all vehicles in the area passed through the mudslide.

Message of 112 and in Xylogastro

A message was sent via 112 to the residents of Xylogastro, warning of dangerous weather events (strong storms, hail) in their area. Specifically, the message reads: “Warning message for hazardous weather events in your area (severe storms, hail). Limit movements during events and follow authorities’ instructions”.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, according to the mayor’s decision, all school units of the municipality of Xylokastro – Urostini, such as kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools and high schools, kindergartens and the creative employment center of the municipality will be closed.

In this case, in Giato in Corinthia, there was a fire when lightning struck the palm trees next to the houses. Accordingly korinthostv.grThey rushed to the spot Three fire engines To put out the fire,

Already yesterday, on Sunday, an alert was issued by 112 for the next two 24 hours in Thessaly, Sporades, Phithiotida and North Evia.

Areas are expected to be most affected

According to forecast data from Meteo.gr/National Observatory of Athens, the areas receiving the most water are Thessaly (mainly the provinces of Trikala and Karditsa), the Central Mainland (the provinces of Evrytania, Phokita and Phithiotida) and the Northern Peloponnese (mainly the provinces of Achaia and Corinthia).

Tomorrow, Tuesday, the upper atmospheric disturbance (cold lake) responsible for the bad weather will be in the southern Ionian, and in combination with the surface depression, unsettled weather will prevail again in western, central and southern Greece. In these areas, there will be occasional rains and storms, and the events will be strong at many places.

Especially for Thessaly, the highest rainfall amounts (in millimeters) are expected in the areas of Pelion and Otrios and in the western parts of the region until the end of tomorrow.

According to the Rainfall Episode (RPI) classification implemented by the Meteo Unit of the National Observatory of Athens, the rainfall episode for today and tomorrow is classified as category 3 (significant).

Based on the available data, the bad weather will continue on Wednesday with more and more extreme events (also in Thessaly), and Attica, Crete, Cyclades, Evia and Sporades are now expected to be significantly affected.

They tremble at new calamities, and the mechanism is on foot

The fire brigade, EMAK, civil defense, the full armed forces, together with the Greek police, the region of Thessaly, volunteers and citizens in view of the bad weather “Elias”, the climate crisis minister pointed out. and Civil Defense, Vasilis Kigilias, in an update from the Operations Coordination Center in Larissa.

“It is a collaboration of these three bodies so that we are “Daniel” in every vulnerable part of the region, in every flooded village, in every point where problems have been created since last summer,” he said.

Mr. Kigilias said, adding that in the next few hours the occurrence of bad weather will start in Thessaly.

“At this time, in addition to the forces of the army and ELAS, there are 650 people from the fire department in the whole region of Thessaly, 140 fire department vehicles, boats of the 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th EMAK brigades. 1st and 2nd EMODE and 3 helicopters of the fire department and 4 of the army Helicopters”, among others, said the head of operations of the Fire Brigade, Lt. Gen. Thanasis Balafas, in a briefing by the operations coordinator in Larissa. About the new bad weather.

“We hope for the best and prepare for the worst. We have to take into account that Central Greece, Evia, the Attica region, the Peloponnese are already under partial public alert, because the events are not limited here, because the forces here are strong. The infrastructures of Thessaly can be thought to have been “wounded” by the previous event, So here we are a little more scared,” said Mr. Balafas noted.

As Mr. Palapas said, all the villages and areas affected by the previous bad weather are already in force. “We have troops on 3 fronts, so that we have quick access to all the villages that had to be evacuated last time. I hope everything will be fine. I want to thank everyone who has cooperated so far in Thessaly, the army, the district, the Greek police, volunteers, etc. Finally, I want to ask for the help of the Greek citizen, “I think the first and most powerful. The civil defense team is an informed Greek citizen who follows instructions exactly,” said Mr. Balafas pointed out.