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Torrential rainfalls and stormy winds hit the islands of Zakynthos on Friday morning causing major damages in homes and businesses and infrastructure. Roads, homes, shops and hotels were flooded, landslides blocked main roads, solar heaters flew in the air and pergolas were found tens of meters away. Kalamaki via ermisnews.gr …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on upcoming bad weather front with main features the heavy rainstorms and stormy south winds forecast to reach 8 Beaufort. According to the EMY weather warning, the bad weather from comes from the West and will move to the East, mainly …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an alert warning of weather deterioration with main features heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, locally accompanied by hail. The bad weather front will set in from the West on Monday, November 22, and quikcly move to the East, Central and South-East Greece until Wednesday, November …

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High temperatures above the average for this time of year will prevail in Greece over the next few days, according to Athens National Observatory’s meteo service forecast on Friday. Temperature will be up to 6-7 degrees Celsius higher than the average in the month of November. The movement of hot …

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A 70-year-old shepherd from Evia who had been missing in the floods since Thursday was found dead early Friday afternoon. The man had gone to check for his animals as stormy weather front Ballos was striking the area with heavy rainfall. The shepherd had called the Fire Service short after …

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The island of Corfu was declared in “state of emergency” late on Thursday after torrential rains flooded homes and businesses, destroyed infrastructure, agriculture and live stock thus endangering human lives. 69 people in total had to be evacuated with boats or helicopters as they were trapped in the floods. Many …

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Greece’s  Civil Protection announced emergency measures for Attica late on Thursday due to bad weather front Ballos that is forecast to strike again from the early morning Friday, October 15, 2021. Measures have been announced also for regions forecast to be hit Ballos, too. The measures were decided during an …

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After the unprecedented evacuation of students from a flooded school in western Athens, authorities decided to close all schools in region of Attica including Athens, Piraeus and suburbs on Friday, October 15, 2021, as stormy weather front Ballos is forecast to intensify. Afternoon and evening schools in the same areas …

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Greece’s Civil Protection sent an Alert message to mobile phones of the residents of Athens, Piraeus and other suburbs of Attica warning of extreme weather phenomena and urging people to refrain from unnecessary movement outdoors. The message in Greek and English urges the residents of the Greek capital to avoid …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a Red Alert warning of bad weather front “Ballos” with extreme weather phenomena, powerful rainfalls, thunderstorms locally accompanied by hail and temperature drop of up to 7 degrees Celsius. An emergency teleconference meeting was held by the Civil Protection and 13 regional governors on …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a new warning of a weather deterioration with strong rainfalls and thunderstorms accompanied locally by hail and powerful winds. The phenomena will affect western, central and northern Greece on Sunday and Monday, October 10-11. Wind up to 7-8 Beaufort in the Ionian Sea. The …

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Main roads on the island of Corfu turned into rivers on Thursday, house yards and basements were flooded, power outages occurred, small landslides took place and problems were registered in the provincial network after bad weather front “Athena” hit the island in the northern Ionian Sea. The Fire Service had …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a weather warning on Wednesday warning of dangerous weather phenomena with rainfalls, thunderstorms and powerful winds. Note that EMY has marked its weather warning “red” which is the highest alert level. According to EMY, the barometric low called “Athena” is forecast to cause a …

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Μeteorologists forecast weather deterioration with strong northern winds, powerful rainfalls and storms and temperature dropping. According to the meteo service of the National Observatory of Athens, the weather deterioration will first affect the northern regions of Greece The cold air masses will gradually push away the warmer masses and the …

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Starting on Wednesday evening, a cold weather front coming form the North is expected to sweep over Greece toward the south, bringing rain and storms that may in some places be intense, especially early on Thursday morning, the meteo.gr weather service of the National Observatory of Athens forecast. The bad …

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Temperatures will start falling sharply in Greece, gradually as of Tuesday and drop as much as 9 degrees Celsius below the average normal for this time of year by Thursday, the National Observatory of Athens weather service Meteo announced. Temperatures on Tuesday will remain high for the time of year …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Saturday noon of heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms accompanied by strong winds reaching up to 7 Beaufort. Particularly affected are the Ionian islands and western Peloponnese. According to EMY’s warning heavy rains and thunderstorms will occur from the early morning hours …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning Wednesday noon, of heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms on September 8-9, 2021. On Wednesday, particularly affected will be the northern Evia and the Sporades island group, but also Thessaly, eastern Central Greece, western Crete and possibly central Macedonia. Thunderstorms are forecast to …

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Powerful north-eastern winds blowing with intensity of up to 8-9 Beaufort have caused disruption to maritime traffic in the Aegean Sea on Monday. According to state-run news agency amna disrupted are some ferry and catamaran commercial lines. The Agia Marina-Nea Styra ferry was not running on Monday. Catamaran ‘Flying Cat …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) warns of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, powerful winds reaching locally 9 Beaufort, temporary hail-falls and temperature drop. According to the warning issued by EMY on Friday, the weather deterioration is forecast to strike Greece from the West on Sunday, Sept 5, and …

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