Strong storms hit the central and southern parts of the country this afternoon. Hail accompanied by torrential rain fell over villages in Chirpansko, Starozagorsko and Tvarditsa municipality. They made it difficult for cars to move along “Thrakia” in the region of Stara Zagora and Plovdiv.
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A yellow code for intense rainfall and thunderstorms was announced for 12 regions of Western Bulgaria. Our viewer in “Moyana Novina” also sent a signal of heavy hail. The streets of Kaloyanovets turned white from the ice chunks.
Heavy hail hit the Novozagorsk village of Banya. The pieces are the size of eggs. Extremely heavy damage was done. The harvest of wheat, potatoes and roses was completely destroyed.
The farmer Gencho Kolev said that the losses from the 30-minute hail were great. “Everything turned into ice. 10-15 centimeters of coverage on fields and permanent crops. Absolutely everything was destroyed,” he revealed.
Marian Kolev believes that the anti-hail missiles were activated, but they did not help and now their production has been destroyed. On Friday, the family will begin to describe the damage, but what they see is that their livelihood for the year has been irretrievably lost to the hail.
The village of Samuilovo in Stara Zagora was seriously affected by the ice chunks. The main damage is to fruit trees and plantations, but the information is still being summarized, and the situation remains dynamic, announced the mayor of Chirpan Ivaylo Kracholov.
In 4 hours, from 1:19 p.m., more than 600 rockets were fired from the structures of the Executive Agency “Fighting Hail”, in connection with the developed powerful cumulonimbus clouds, accompanied by hail, in the regions of Plovdiv, Haskovo, Stara Zagora and Sliven. More than 20 hail risk cells were processed by the Regional directorates for hail in Taža, Stara Zagora, Popovitsa, Haskovo and Sliven.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued warnings about increases in some of the river levels. It is about the watersheds of the rivers Ogosta, Iskar, Vit, Osam, Yantra, in the watersheds of the rivers north of the Kamchia River, including the upper parts of the Tundzha River watershed and the upper and middle parts of the Maritsa River watershed.
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