The storms aren’t coming here

By a Staff Reporter

THE CATASTROPHIC freak weather hitting Britain and Europe over the past 11 days is not about to arrive in Cyprus, the Meteorological Service assured yesterday.

At least twelve people have been killed in Britain as a series of deep depressions have swept in from the Atlantic, bringing with them torrential rains and gale force winds.

Dozens of homes have been destroyed in Britain, which has been the worst hit. The severe weather – which scientist blame on global warming — has also brought death and destruction in Italy and Spain.

While the depressions causing the freak weather are travelling westwards towards Cyprus, they will “peter out” long before they reach our shores, local meteorologists said yesterday.

“The outlook for the next few days remains fine, though there might be some instability on Sunday,” weatherman Loisos Stephanou told the Cyprus Mail.

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.