More than 750 mm of rain has fallen in central Greece during the last 24 hours, triggering life threatening flooding and setting a new national daily rainfall record. A low pressure system named Storm Daniel developed over the Ionian Sea, to the west of Greece, earlier this week. The system has been drawing copious moisture from abnormally warm water in the Mediterranean Sea and converting it into thick clouds, heavy rain and thunderstorms over the Balkan Peninsula during the last two days. Image: Sea surface temperature anomalies on September 3, showing warmer than average water in the Medit...