Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Emergency weather alert issued on tourist Greek island Liam Gilliver Monday 02 November 2026 11:46 GMT Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover Rhodes has been placed under an orange weather warning ( EMY ) Storm Agneta has battered parts of Greece , triggering severe flooding and orange weather warnings across the Dodecanese islands, including Rhodes .
Emergency alerts were sent to Rhodes residents at 3.30am on Monday, with authorities urging people to stay indoors and avoid travelling. Torrential rain swept away at least 60 vehicles, flooded homes and shops, and forced some residents to take refuge on rooftops, according to local media. School closures have been announced across several regions of Rhodes, though flights at Rhodes Airport currently remain unaffected. The storm comes just weeks after previous flash flooding in Greece caused the death of a man whose car was swept away in Rhodes.
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The Independent reports Storm Agneta's severe flooding on Rhodes: at least 60 vehicles swept away, homes and shops flooded, residents on rooftops, and a death from flash flooding weeks earlier. It never tells its reader that warming makes heavy rainfall like this more frequent and more severe, so the floods read as bad luck rather than part of a documented trend.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“Torrential rain swept away at least 60 vehicles, flooded homes and shops, and forced some residents to take refuge on rooftops”
Why this matters
The words "Torrential rain swept away at least 60 vehicles" describe extreme rainfall and its damage, and the article adds nothing about what lies behind such downpours.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking the storm was a one-off natural event with no link to a warming climate.
The context
Human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent and more intense. The article never says so, in this sentence or anywhere else.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “warming”.
“The storm comes just weeks after previous flash flooding in Greece caused the death of a man whose car was swept away in Rhodes.”
Why this matters
This sentence links the storm to a deadly flash flood on the same island weeks earlier, so the article itself presents repeated, lethal flooding.
The impression it gives
A reader sees two damaging floods in a few weeks as coincidence, with no explanation of why such events keep coming.
The context
The repetition the article reports fits the documented trend: warming is making heavy rainfall more frequent and more severe. The article never says so.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Elsewhere in the article“Torrential rain swept away at least 60 vehicles”
Storm Agneta's torrential rain swept away at least 60 vehicles on Rhodes and flooded homes and shops, weeks after a man died in flash flooding on the island. Climate change is making heavy rainfall like this more frequent and more intense.