After weeks of warm and sunny weather, Saturday and Sunday in Korcula were rainy and windy.

We had heavy rain at Saturday, which brought us, according to Korculan Meteorological Station, about 185 litars of rain per square meter.

Since records begins, this is the highest measured rainfall in Korcula .

This graph, produced by Korcula Weather Station of www.korcula.net website, shows the rainfall in Korcula on 16.09.06:

As you can see on the graph, the rainfall was so high that it went off the graph.

This bad weather brough a lot of trouble to boats and crops as well as to local shops .

As shops are all located at the ground floors many were flooded .

This image, taken by Nenad Kosovic, shows Korcula’s firefighters helping to drain water from the local shop:

The same problems arised in Orebic and other places at Peljesac Peninsula and along Korcula’s archipelago.

This image, taken by Denis Kastelan , shows Orebic seashore with rain water streeming towards the sea:

To see more images of bad weather, check our Korcula Today page