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Hardly is storm Bettina gone, a strong barometric low coming from North-West Europe and moving southeast will cause a new wave of bad weather in Greece, forecast to last from the evening hours of Monday, November 27, until Wednesday, November 29, 2023, The bad weather front bring rainfalls, locally strong …

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Winds blowing with intensity of 11 Beaufort swept along the coast of Kassandra leg in Halkidiki peninsula over the weekend damaging pedestrian zones in the villages of the mainly touristic area. Badly affected have been the villages of Siviri, Hanioti, Pefkohori and Polychrono where piers were cracked, trees uprooted and …

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Greece’s Civil Protection sent emergency messages to citizens via <112> on Saturday, urging them to limit their movement due to stormy winds that have already led to cancellation of sea traffic. At the same time, the National Meteorological Service updated its Weather Warning issued on Friday to Highest Category “RED.” …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Friday warning of a cold weather front with snowfalls and rainfalls, gale-force winds both in the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, storms and significant temperature drop. According to EMY, a deep barometric low coming from the north-northwest accompanied by a …

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Heavy rainfalls hit the island of Rhodes early on Wednesday, flooding main and small roads and causing landslides in some villages. Authorities urge citizens to limit their movements Streams have been overflown in the area of Damatia and Marista, local media rodiaki.gr reported. The heave rainfalls started early Wednesday morning. …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Tuesday, warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms. The bad weather front is forecast to hit the country as of Tuesday night, November 21, starting from the western parts. On Wednesday, affected will be the south part of …

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Dutch experts shed light on the causes of the floods disaster in Thessaly plain that destroyed agricultural land, farming animals, homes and businesses in September 2023. The experts hired to evaluate the causes of the floods have reportedly proposed a new water management model. Among their preliminary findings included in …

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The European Commission on Thursday decided to refer Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to provide updated flood risk and flood hazard maps as required by its floods directive. It was the only EU member country not to comply. The European Commission Thursday launched legal action …

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A massive weather deterioration with the first snowfalls is underway on upcoming weekend November 18-19, 2023. Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Thursday afternoon. Main features of the weather deterioration are forecast to be: Gale force winds of 8 to 9 Beaufort and gusts up to …

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Luminous Transient Events (TLE’s) over storms in the Greek area: a very rare phenomenon, the Red Sprites, occurred over a storm in the Aegean Sea on November 12, 2023. The amazing phenomenon was capture by @csath who posted the picture on social media. Last night, "Jellyfish" Sprite over the #thunderstorms …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY updated its Emergency Weather Deterioration Bulletin issued on November 9, 2023, on Sunday based on the latest forecast data. From Sunday evening, November 12, a new weather system from the north-west will reach Greece with heavy rainfalls and storms. It will initially affect western Greece, …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Thursday warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms. The weather will deteriorate from noon on Friday, November 10, until late Saturday night, November 11, 2023. Forecast are heavy rainfalls and storms, which will be accompanied by hail and …

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Conditions of mild or medium drought were recorded in 38 percent of Greece’s territory in October 2023, the Athens National Observatory’s meteo.gr service reported on Tuesday. The drought in central and eastern Macedonia and especially in the region of Thrace was classed as medium and in some locations extreme. Mild …

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Scuffles between protesters and riot police broke out at Exarchia Square in downtown Athens on Monday morning, when workers started to cut off trees for the sake of the new metro station. Upset about the felling of a total of 72 old and healthy trees at the metro construction site, …

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A large wild fire has been raging out of control in Karystos, south Evia, forcing residents of villages to evacuation. The fire has broken out near the residential are in Amygdalia by Karystos on Saturday noon, at a time when very strong winds were blowing with intensity of 8 to …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Thursday warning of a weather deterioration with intense phenomena in most parts of the country. According to forecast, heavy rainfalls and storms accompanied by high frequency of lightning and hail will affect the country from Friday afternoon until midday Sunday, …

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Hidden below the surface of the sea are the so-called “blue forests” or posidonia seagrass “meadows” that abound on the seabed, creating one of the most valuable habitats in the Mediterranean. “They are virtually everywhere but they are not seaweed. They are ordinary plants. Marine, flowering plants, just like those …

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The month of October was the warmest in Greece in the last 15 years, the National Observatory of Athens reported on Wednesday. According to data collected by a network of 51 meteorological stations across the country, the average maximum daily temperatures were very high compared to the average for the …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Wednesday, warning of intense weather phenomena. Heavy rainfalls and storms accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and local hailstorms are forecast from Wednesday evening, October 25, until Thursday evening, October 26, 2023. Mainly affected will be western Greece. EMY …

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“Summer” in the heart of autumn with temperatures up to 6 degrees Celsius above the seasonal average are forecast in Greece for the next couple of days. The transport of warm air masses from Africa to the Balkans and the south-eastern Mediterranean in the coming days will result in a …

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