Residents of Thessaly, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Central Greece and the Northern Aegean islands received a message via the emergency line <112> warning them of upcoming heavy thunderstorms and stormy winds.
The message warned them of the severe storms and stormy winds and urged them to “reduce movements unless absolute necessary” from the evening hours of Friday, April 19, until Saturday noon, April 20, 2024.
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🆘 Προειδοποιητικό μήνυμα για ισχυρές καταιγίδες-θυελλώδεις ανέμους από τις βραδινές ώρες της Παρασκευής 19/04/2024 έως το μεσημέρι του Σαββάτου 20/04/2024 στην περιοχή σας
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Minister of Civil Protection, Vassilis Kikilias, already traveled to Thessaly on Friday noon, the area flooded by the storm Daniel in September 2023, and currently targeted by large amounts of rain. The minister will stay overnight in the area, in the city of Larissa, to supervise and coordinate meetings of the Risk Assessment Committee.
Saturday
via @kolydasT, director of National Meteorology Service EMY
Friday night
“The Committee partially upgraded the bad weather level and based on latest data, the storm will mostly impact the region of Thessaly from Friday afternoon until early on Saturday morning.
Local media like taxydromos.gr report that municipality teams clean drains friday afternoon, even though the forest for heavy rainfalls was clear in the last 3-4 days.
The intense weather phenomena are expected to start from the west and quickly spread to the central and northern mainland, the Sporades islands, Evia, the Cyclades islands, the eastern Aegean and possibly western Crete and later to the Dodecanese.
Rainfall and possible storm are expected in Athens and Attca in the night from Friday to Saturday
The winds will be strong and will reach 7 and locally 8 Beaufort.
More details on the bad weather fronts incl. maps here on KTG.
