Two flights from UK airports to Paphos had to be diverted on Saturday night to Larnaca due to bad weather, Hermes spokesman Adamos Aspris told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday.
Coastal areas in Paphos, Limassol, Laranca and Famagusta were batttered by heavy rain and strong winds on Saturday night, prompting the weather service to issue a yellow alert from 6pm on Saturday to 10am on Sunday.
Aspris told CNA that during the evening two UK flights to Paphos were diverted to Larnaca but flew back to Paphos after midnight when given the all clear that the weather conditions had eased, and had landed without any problems.
Paphos had seen extensive flooding on Thursday.
The fire services said on Sunday they had answered 32 calls for help in the past 24 hours, 18 of which were fires. The remainder, they said were not serious incidents.
The rainy weather is expected to continue throughout Sunday but not to the same extent as Saturday night, the met office told CyBC. Temperatures were set to fall from 27C on Saturday to 23C inland and on the coast – two degrees below normal – and 13C in the mountains.
Cyprus Mail