Paphos Life

It's slowly the time we will get the first heavy rainfall after a hot summer, perhaps some tonight or tomorrow.

I always like to write down what I measured in my area (Paphos hinterland) to compare it with the figures I can read in the press.

So, last year in Autumn, starting from 7.9.22 until 30.12. it was 177 mm/m2, while the whole year 2023 until today it was 190 mm/2 altogether 367 mm in one years time.
No wonder they had such terrible floods in Greece last week, when it rained more than 700 mm in one single day, nearly twice the yearly rain I measured in Cyprus at my place.
I hope that kind of rainfall never happens in Cyprus....

Max

I agree that, for the most part, Cypriot precipitation figures are reasonably moderate. It is nevertheless important to realise that any given figure can be totally meaningless. Why? Because the measurements are made at one particular spot. Yet simultaneous measurements made 100 m or so down the road may be totally different. Even in our village, it is quite usual to have violent precipitation in one place, while the roads may remain dry in another place, 200 m distant. The local farmers know which end of the village to grow a given produce.