[WRC] EKO Acropolis Rally Greece 2023 (7-10 Sep)

[Tauri_J]

From thursday it Will be bone dry.

[bomber21]

Exactly, it will not rain during the rally but the days before.

[atsiotras79]

In Kamena Vourla is raining now, but nothing serious… the forecast for tomorrow though… looks like a lot of rain…

[CeskyOndra]

In weather forecast for Lamia there is 118mm of rain on Tuesday. That's absolutely massive and Rovanpera has luck once again

[atsiotras79]

The government just sent SMS about extreme weather conditions in the area for the next 24 hours…

[bluuford]

This can be extended, they were very late with this warning, I warned last Friday already, lets see, hopefully the most extreme is staying in north from rally, but it will be sooo extreme there that probably many rescue services are needed there. Some models are predicting amounts (ca 30-50 km norths from Sunday stages) I have never seen before, never, nowhere. That is basically 2.2 meters of water in ca 2 days. Models tend to misjudge extreme events due to their rare occurrences, but it shows anyway that this is note joke, that this is bad.

[Rallyper]

This can be extended, they were very late with this warning, I warned last Friday already, lets see, hopefully the most extreme is staying in north from rally, but it will be sooo extreme there that probably many rescue services are needed there. Some models are predicting amounts (ca 30-50 km norths from Sunday stages) I have never seen before, never, nowhere. That is basically 2.2 meters of water in ca 2 days. Models tend to misjudge extreme events due to their rare occurrences, but it shows anyway that this is note joke, that this is bad.

You mean 2200 mm of rain? Or water? Where?

[Oliverk]

Prob meant 2.2 m of snow.
Will travel to rally in Wednesday, hopefully not the worst scenario and it will go on, else nice one week vacation

[bluuford]

You mean 2200 mm of rain? Or water? Where?

2200 mm of water was the worst prediction, but now it is a bit downgraded ca 50 km North from Lamia.

[Negaiss]

Hello ! Apart from being rally fan, I am also meteo enthusiast and local (Latvian) storm chaser. I checked the situation and these are my my points:
1. All the models predict huge amount of rain for next 2,5 - 3 days. Even up to 2000 mm of total rain accumulated. Even 500 mm of rain for 3 days is extreme.
2. The majority of models show the big rain falling just north of the rally region, but but still even up to 500 mm in rally region.
3. Rain will stop Thursday (07.09.2023) evening but damage will be done.
4. If the models verify (and they will because at least 5 different weather models show the same), there will be disaster and state of emergency north of the stages. Access roads will be destroyed, even rally stages can be damaged. A lot of rock falls can happen and block the roads. And Emergency vehicle access can be a problem.
5. I thing WRC rally of Greece 2023 will be canceled.