Rainfall to continue

A LOW pressure front is affecting the area resulting in rainfall and a drop in temperature, putting an end to the sunshine and above normal temperatures of the last few days.

According to the Meteorology Service, light showers are expected to continue on Thursday.

Temperature will drop to 18 degrees, a 3C drop from last week’s sunny 22.

While sudden rainfall usually results in flooding of houses and roads, no major problems were reported to either the police or the fire department.

It was not immediately known whether a major power outage in Larnaca yesterday morning was due to the light showers. EAC spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou-Theofanidou told the Cyprus Mail that repair groups would assess the damage and determine whether rainfall was a contributing factor. The outage was caused when an underground cable was damaged.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.