January 25, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix, weather
Greece’s Civil Protection extended the obligatory holiday to Wednesday, January 26, 2022 due to the weather conditions. Minister Christos Stylianides announced Tuesday noon that the ‘holiday” will be extended to the regions of Attica, Crete, the islands groups of Cyclades and Dodecanese. Obligatory holiday shuts down public and private sectors …
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January 24, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix, weather
The Greek government declared Tuesday, January 25, a public holiday for the public and private sector due to the extreme snow weather conditions. The public holiday is valid in six regions in central and south Greece. Climate Crisis and Civil Protection minister Christos Stylianides announced late on Monday that the …
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January 24, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix, weather
The head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation on Monday evening into the failures of Attiki Odos highway ring road of Greek capital Athens as hundreds of motorists remain stranded in the snow since the morning. For a distance to cover in 20 minutes they need over …
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January 24, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Heavy snow has been falling in Attica and the Greek capital Athens since the morning as the second wave of snow and cold snap weather front ELPIS set in. The public transport network has almost collapsed, major roads have been closed to traffic or endlessly jammed, motorists are trapped in …
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January 23, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s Civil Protection has sent SMS to residents of several regions across the country on Sunday evening warning them to avoid “unnecessary movement” in the next 48 hours due to dense snow falls. Using the EU-wide emergency number , the Civil Protection warned in Greek and English people in parts …
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January 23, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Primary and secondary schools as well as pre-schools and kindergartens in Athens and Attica will remain closed on Monday and Tuesday, January 24-25, due to the second wave of the snow weather. The regional government of Attica took this decision on Sunday afternoon for “preventive reasons, for the safety of …
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January 23, 2022
FEATURED, weather
A not so often phenomenon on the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean Sea: Snow! Famous landscapes on Mykonos, Santorini, Amorgos, Tinos have been covered with a white carpet and the scenery reminds anything but bright sun, endless blue sea and sandy beaches. Syros, Sifnos and Andros via syrrospress Thrilled …
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January 20, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a RED ALERT Thursday noon, warning of the high impact weather event called ELPIS – Hope (!?) – forecast to affect the country in two phases. The cold snap is forecast to cause significant temperature drop, snowfalls in eastern Greece and stormy winds. The …
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January 19, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Temperatures plunged down to -12 degrees Celsius in some mountainous regions of Greece’s mainland causing strong frost on Wednesday morning. Snowfall and ice on Mt Parnitha prompted the traffic police to close off part of the road leading to the mountain in the north of Attica. The country is affected …
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January 12, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Bad weather front “Diomedes” is sweeping across Greece with dense snowfalls and heavy rainfalls, low temperatures and frost, causing problems mainly in central and northern Greece, where areas have been flooded and snow has closed many regional roads. Since Tuesday evening, the Civil Protection dispatched 100 machines to remove snow …
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January 10, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece Extreme Weather Warning: Barometric low “Diomedes” is forecast to sweep across the country with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, dense snowfalls and sharp temperature decrease as well as with stormy winds, National Meteorological Service (EMY) warned with its Red Alert published on Monday. According to EMY forecast, bad weather front …
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December 27, 2021
weather
Greece’ National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a warning on a weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms. Coming from the West, the bad weather front will start today, Monday, December 27, and last until Wednesday, December 29,2021. The bad weather front will set in in the West of the country …
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December 23, 2021
weather
Freezing conditions prevailed in the mountainous areas of Greece on Thursday with the lowest temperature of -27.8 Celsius to have been recorded in the doline* of Vathystalos on Moint Parnassus in central Greece, at 9 o’ clock in the morning. Reason for the freezing temperatures are the clear skies at …
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December 18, 2021
weather
Bad weather front Carmel has brought snow in Athens even at low altitudes of 300 meters. Carmel is pounding central and south Greece with snow, freezing temperatures and ice cold winds since Friday afternoon. Several villages on Evie without electricity. Snow has been heavily falling in North-West Attica and authotiries …
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December 17, 2021
environment
Greece’s Environment & Energy Ministry’s released the first three Special Environmental Studies related to Natura 2000 regions in the country. The Studies were released for public consultation on Thursday. The studies concern protected areas in eastern Crete, in Rodopi Evros as well as in the southern Peloponnese. Minister Kostas Skrekas …
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December 16, 2021
weather
National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a weather warning on bad front named Carmel forecast to hit Greece and the broader south-east Mediterranean basin with dense snowfalls, heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, gale-force wind of 9 Beaufort and high waves. Carmel is coming from Russia and the weather deterioration will be particularly …
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December 15, 2021
weather
The first snow of this winter started to fall on the Mount Parnitha in the north of Athens since Tuesday and cameras captured deer at an altitude of 1,050 meters. Traffic has been party halted in the area. Video: Dense snowfall on Mt Parnitha – Location: Bafi refuge Videos: Deer …
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December 12, 2021
Society, Very Mix, weather
One woman lost her life in western Macedonia when the bad weather front hit with full power Greece with torrential rainfalls and gale-force on Saturday. Members of the fire brigades located the body of the 55-year-old woman who went missing on Saturday evening when torrential rain had flooded the area …
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December 10, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) amended its weather warning issued on Thursday and upgraded to Alarm Level on Friday afternoon. Special mention is to the Ionian Sea and the islands where high volume of rain and winds blowing with intensity of 9 to 10 Beaufort are expected state broadcaster ERT …
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December 9, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Greece’ National Meteorological Service issued a warning of weather deterioration with intense phenomena such as heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and gale-force winds. The weather deterioration is forecast to start on Thursday night, December 9, gradually affect the whole country and continue until the early morning hours of Sunday, December …
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