97 water pipes and 9 tornadoes were recorded in Greece in 2021
In Greece in 2021 they were recorded 97 water heaters (sea siphons) and nine tornadoes (land siphons), which caused material damage. Most siphons appeared in October (24) and January (23), but the most catastrophic ones were recorded in November and December. Most water pipes were observed in the Dodecanese (21), the Western Aegean (15), the Northern Ionian (13), Crete (12), the Central Ionian (8) and the Thracian Sea (4). The total number of sea and land siphons last year is close to the average of the decade 2010-2019, according to relevant analyzes by researchers at the National Observatory of Athens in Climatebook.gr. In 2020, 89 were recorded water heaters and seven tornadoes, in 2019, 92 and 17 respectively, in 2018, 96 and 9, while in 2017 132 and 14. On the first day of last year, the largest “family of water pipes” for 2021 was recorded and Stavros Kepe med. of the lens a total of 11 water pipes in less than three hours in Rhodes. On January 28, 2021, one of the sea siphons near Kissamos, Chania, went ashore, destroying greenhouses and overturning a heavy vehicle, fortunately without injuring the area itself. On November 26, 2021 a tornado in Kalamaki Zakynthos destroyed roofs of buildings during a strong storm that also caused flooding. On the same day, in Nea Peramo, Attica, another tornado caused material damage to businesses in the settlement of Neraki. The next day, November 27, two tornadoes in Ilia and one in Messinia caused severe property damage by moving vehicles and destroying roofs of houses and products.
Two days later, on November 29, 2021, a water main that went ashore uprooted trees and destroyed roofs and facades of buildings in Kastrosykia. Preveza, fortunately again without any injuries. The last strong type recorded in 2021, was in Spiantza, Ilia, near Katakolo on December 27, when again a sea siphon crossed the land and passed over residential areas, causing material damage.
The small size and duration of the siphons make it difficult to observe and record them, their recordings are theoretically only a part of their real total number. The proliferation of social media and the use of “smart” mobile phones has greatly helped to record all weather phenomena.
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