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Storm Bora brings days of flooding to Greece, with more rain ahead

The weather pattern fueling Storm Bora is similar to the one that caused severe flooding in Spain this fall.

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Stasinos Diamadis, 58, cleans mud from a balcony in Ialysos on the island of Rhodes, Greece, on Sunday, as Storm Bora pounded the country for a second day, causing floods. (Stelios Misinas/Reuters)
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A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain in October.

Vehicles were swept away on streets that turned to rivers on the island of Rhodes as December got underway. The day before, the island of Lemnos in northern Greece was struck in a similar fashion. Other spots have been cut off by washed-out roads and landslides.