Monday, 18 January 2010

Weather

The weather has been terrible now, off and on for several months.  This has been one of the wettest winters here for some time, completely different to last year, wetter yet not so cold.  20100118-Lim-floods01As a result, the water levels in the reservoirs are much higher than this time last year, so hopefully we should not have to suffer the same drought conditions.  Driving in Limassol today, we encountered deeply flooded roads along the sea front, great fun for splashing through, but potentially tending toward becoming impassable in some places where the drains had backed up.  Kyle quite enjoyed the water lapping over the windscreen as we drove through it, but Elena was a little less happy with it.

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This is without doubt the most rain I have seen for a year or more, though Elena tells me that it was this heavy for a week of sustained rain while I was away in Oman.20100118-Lim-floods03Down by the old port there were some strange figures adorning the roundabout.  I have no idea what they were in celebration of, but I think another look is in order in better weather conditions, in order to capture some better pictures.