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High concentrations of Sahara Dust, intensive cloudiness and high temperatures are the features of the weather in Greece this week, May 20 until May 23 2019. Locally rainfalls and storms are not excluded. Sahara Dust High concentration of Sahara Dust will be observed from Monday, May 20, until Friday,  May …

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It poured down as meteorologists forecast: Heavy grey clouds gathered over Athens and Attica around 3 o’ clock Friday afternoon, thunder was heard, the sky opened and strong hail fall came down. The hail intensity was so powerful that within minutes the streets were covered with little white frozen balls. …

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The weather warning issued by Greece’s National Meteorological Service is still valid with rainfalls, storms and strong winds. However, summer seems to be out of our doors as soaring temperatures up to 32 degrees Celsius are forecast over the weekend. Thursday and Friday, May 16th and 17th 2019, rainfalls and …

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Greece’s National Meteorology Service issued a warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and powerful storms that will be locally accompanied by hail falls and strong winds. According to the weather warning issue don Saturday, the weather deterioration will set in the evening hours of Sunday, May 12th 2019, initially …

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The weather in Greece has obviously gone crazy. Beginning of May and some landscapes in the country look as if they are still in January. Heavy snowfalls were recorded in North-Western Greece on Tuesday morning in Nymphaio by Florina in West Macedonia and some mountainous villages by Ioannina or by …

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After days of dry, sunny weather, a deterioration is underway with rainfalls, mud-rain, storms, powerful south winds and Sahara dust. The weather warning by Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued on Friday noon, speaks of South winds up to 8 and 9 Beaufort in the Ionian and the Aegean Sea. …

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Sahara Dust will strike large parts of Greece on Wednesday creating a suffocating atmosphere. Epirus, West Sterea, Crete, Athens and Attica and Peloponnese are the regions to be mostly affected by the phenomenon. Meteorologists forecast increased concentration of Sahara dust particles that will be transported to Greece from Libya due …

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Significant transportation of Sahara Dust is expected to strike Greece during the whole Holy Week, April 22 to April 26, 2019. South winds blowing with intensity of up to 6 and 7 Beaufort will transport billions of particles of red dust. The Sahara dust will initially affect West Greece as …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued early afternoon Wednesday a warning of dangerous weather phenomena forecast to strike Athens and Attica. EMY warns of strong rainfalls, thunderstorms and locally also hail. The weather phenomena are expected to last until the late evening hours of Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Meteorological …

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Four people were injured after a lightning stroke the Acropolis of Athens during a thunderstorm on Wednesday afternoon. The injured have been transferred to Evangelismos hospital in the city center. The unprecedented incident occurred around 4:30 in the afternoon. According to preliminary information, the lightning stroke at the ticket counter …

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A sudden hailstorm in the middle of April surprised residents on Athens and the south-east suburbs early afternoon Monday. Within minutes, large quantities of hail covered the streets of the Greek capital with big, white, frozen balls. The hail stroke with loud noise the center of the Greek capital as …

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It was a short sunny break on Thursday but rain returned on Friday in the largest parts of the country. Atmospheric disturbances will affect the weather that will remain unstable until next Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Main features of the unstable weather are rainfalls and thunderstorms, mud rain due because …

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Rainfalls and sporadic storms are expected in several parts of Greece on Tuesday with meteorologists to forecast rainfalls until the end of the week. Intense weather phenomena are expected in Western Greece, northern mainland, the Eastern Aegean Sea and Crete. Video: Rain forecast April 8-10, 2019 Wind will be blowing …

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Homes and businesses flooded, agricultural land was covered by water and mud and the city of Sitia in Lasithi Prefecture on the island of Crete turned into a huge lake following huge volume of rainwater that fell in the area on Friday and Saturday. The magnitude of the disaster has …

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A big operation is underway to evacuate a family trapped in the floods in Pilalimata by Sitia in the Prefecture of Lasithi on the island of Crete. Four children, two elderly and a woman have escaped on the roof top after the water level reached a dangerous height of 3 …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service warns of a weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms, locally with hail-falls and stormy South-East winds of up to 9 Beaufort in Central and South Greece. The stormy south winds will transfer particles of Sahara Dust to the country. The weather deterioration sets in late …

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Heavy rainfalls that keep falling for hours on the islands of Kassos and Karpathos largely damaged the infrastructure in these two islands in the south Dodecanese. The extreme rainfalls started on Thursday midnight and continued until Friday, March 29. Tonnes of water came down mountains and hills, passed through the …

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Greek authorities ordered ferries to remain docked at the ports of Piraeus on Friday noon due to powerful winds blowing with intensity of up to 9 and 10 Beaufort in the South and the East. The ferries ban from Piraeus will be in power until 6:00 p.m. at least. No …

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Heavy rainfalls and strong winds have been striking the island of Crete since early Friday morning, confirming the meteorologists forecast. The biggest island of Greece is isolated by air and sea as winds blowing with intensity of up to 10 Beaufort have brought ferries traffic to halt, while airplanes have …

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Powerful winds blowing with intensity of 9 Beaufort have swept away trucks from the roads in Western Greece on Thursday. In the first incident, strong winds lifted the empty flatbed of the truck and “pinned’ it on a signboard of the Rio-Antirio bridge in south-west Greece. Traffic on the lane …

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