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Heavy rain and hail-fall strike Athens in mid June (videos)

What if it is mid of June? Thunder, heavy rain- and hail-falls stroke suburbs of Athens and the broader Attica area on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier, another wave of rain had disturbed air traffic in international Aiport Eleftherios Venizelos with the effect that flights were diverted to other airports or were delayed.

Video: Rainstorm in Papagou, North Athens

On Athens highway

Hail in Marousi, North Athens

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In suburbs like Rizoupoli and Bournazi in the West, streets turned into rivers and basements were flooded.

However, the Greek capital was not the only Greek region hit by the bad weather front.

In Tripoli, Central Peloponnese, it needed a hail storm of half an hour to destroy thousands of acres of agriculture.

A hail storm stroke the city of Trikala, in Central Greece.

The weather front came from the North, where hail storm stroke also Polygyros Municipality in Halkidiki, damaging the crops.

If the weather continuous like this, the summer this year will be like than one in 2018 with lots of rainfalls.

more videos form Athens storm: newsit.gr

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Bobby Gee created the Zakynthos (Zante) Informer in May 2010. He works as a radio presenter hosting the very popular Bobby Gee Breakfast show on the islands English-speaking radio station, Island FM. Bobby is also Station Manager, and actively works with the Zakynthos community.

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