Athens hit with several months of rain in one day: expert

Wednesday's storm lashed the country and left two dead, with disaster crews spending Thursday cleaning up debris. Kostas Lagouvardos, research director at the National Observatory in Athens, said the "extreme" weather phenomenon had dumped up to 170 millimetres of rain on the capital. That amounted to "about 40 percent of the rain that falls annually in Athens", he told AFP on the sidelines of a presentation of annual weather data for Greece. A 56-year-old woman died on Wednesday evening after...