Almost every year, localised and in some cases more widespread floodings affect parts of Cyprus,
causing damages to properties destruction to infrastructure and housing and sometimes the loss of human life.
Various factors such as the meteorological situation and type and intensity of precipitation, the geomorphology,
the geology and the human intervention to geomorphology are responsible for flood events. In the present
study, only the meteorological situation and the associated mechanisms are examined in an attempt to gain the
essential knowledge for improvement of local weather forecasts