Tsareva Polyana, a village in Stambolovo municipality, had the most rain in Haskovo region in the past 24 hours: 25 litres per square metre. Duty staff at the Haskovo hydrometeorological observatory gave BTA the figures.

Haskovo got 16 litres per square metre and Dimitrovgrad 13.5. The least fell in Lyubimets and in Izvorovo, a village near Harmanli, where the reading was 7.8 litres per square metre.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology issued an orange code warning for heavy rain for yesterday. The code for today is yellow, and the observatory expects light showers.

The region has not had rain this heavy since the night of 4 to 5 June, when 36.5 litres per square metre fell in the village of Mineralni Bani.