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Homes and shops were flooded, streets turned into rivers, swollen streams and landslides and tons of mud in and around Chania as barometric low Daedalus kept striking the island of Crete early Thursday morning. Livadia

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Snow, hail, temperature drop, rough sea: these are the features of bad weather front Daedalus that is sweeping across the country since the beginning of the week. Snow started to fall on Monday on the mountains above a certain level. Beautiful snow landscape in Astraka hut at 1950 m. on …

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Powerful low barometric phenomenon they call Daedalus has landed in Greece with rainstorms, hail, strong winds and low temperatures. Is this the definite end of swimming season? Not, yet. According to Greek National Meteorological Service the bad weather front sets in from the North Ioanian Sea on Monday morning, October …

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A mini-tornado stroke in the swimming pool of a posh hotel in Lindos on the island of Rhodes on October 10th. The freak weather had sun umbrellas flying, branches of palm trees were blown around and sunbathers just stunned or tried to seek shelter from the flying objects. The footage …

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Extreme weather phenomena: Greece’ National Meteorological service EMY warns of weather deterioration with strong rainfalls and storms, hail, and temperature drop of up to 10 degrees Celsius. The weather deterioration is expected in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 7th 2017. The bad weather front will set in first …

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The Greek Coast Guard has banned departure of ferries and ships from several Greek ports due to severe weather conditions in the Aegean Sea with north winds blowing with intensity of up to 9 Beaufort locally. UPDATE   6 p.m. GR time, Sept 29/2017 The GCG lifted the ban as the …

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Time to get our umbrellas and abandon summer sandals…. Rainstorms, locally thunderstorms, strong North winds with intensity of up to 8 Beaufort and further temperature decrease are the features of weather in Greece for the coming days. According to some meteorologists, snow is also expected in the mountainous areas above, …

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Autumn begins astronomical on September 22nd, but the Greek Autumn arrives already today with rainfalls, thunderstorms, strong Western and North winds and temperature drop during the day, . According to meteorologists and the National Meteorology Service,the bad weather front will start in Western Greece and move to areas of Central …

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Summer is back! Meteorologists forecast a mini heat wave in the middle of September with temperatures to reach 37 to 40 degrees Celsius. Temperature will gradually rise on Saturday, the first ‘summer day’ of this extraordinary September will be on Sunday. The mini heat wave will  reach its peak on …

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Greece is a divided country: sunshine, storms and hail. National Meteorology Service (EMY) has issued a weather warning for Monday, September 11th 2017. Main characteristics of the weather deterioration are storms, hail and very strong south winds reaching up to 9 Beaufort in the Ionian Sea and the shores of …

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August says Goodbye with sudden storms, hail and strong winds. Basements and streets were flooded, power was cut, people trapped in elevators, vineyards were damaged. It poured down in Larissa, Central Greece, in Grevena and Kastoria, a little up in the north, in Western Macedonia. Fire brigades had to rush …

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Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a ‘weather deterioration’ report and warns of extreme rainfalls, storms, hail and very strong winds in several regions across the country. The EMY warning refers to today, Tuesday, and tomorrow, Wednesday, August 29-30 2017. The forecast predicts that the extreme weather deterioration will …

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Enough with this permanent sunshine and the high temperatures. Meteorologists forecast a sudden change in the weather with rainfalls and sporadic storms and temperature drop up to 5 degrees Celsius. Forecast Monday, 21 August 2017 The rain weather will set initially in northern Greece and will gradually move to most …

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Winds down, temperatures up. Or in meteorologists’ language: Beaufort decrease, Celsius increase. Weather forecasters speak of a prolonged heat wave up to 41 degrees Celsius. Temperature will gradually rise over the weekend and will affect initially Western Greece. Then the hell will grab large parts of the country from North …

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A strong rain- and thunderstorm stroke the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea on Thursday morning causing power outages in several areas of the island including the capitalcity. According to local media, the rain- and thunderstorm started as early as 6 o’ clock in the morning initially in the …

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Air temperature is on the rise and a mini heat wave is right before our Greek doors. At the same time, strong North wind will be blowing with up to 8 Beaufort locally in the Aegean Sea, and rainstorms are expected in the Central and East Macedonia. Sunday, July 23 …

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Barometric low ‘Medusa’ swept through the middle leg of Chalkidiki (Halkidiki) on Monday, flooding roads and camping areas, basements and hotel rooms. Boats sank and camping trailers were swept away. Media report of tourists who fled the area thus causing traffic jam on the roads. The region of Chalkidiki attracts …

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A snowstorm started on the Mount Olympus in the early morning hours of Monday although the calendar shows July 17th. With an elevation of 2,918 m  Mt Olympus is the highest mountain of Greece located on the border between Macedonia and Thessaly, some 80km south of Thessaloniki. Temperature fell sharply …

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Greek meteorologists call the phenomenon “Medusa”. An extreme weather low with hundreds of lightning. A lightning storm? Possibly. The phenomenon is bringing strong rain storms, hail, strong north winds, temperature decrease and -as said – a big number of lightning. the phenomenon coming from the North is apparently more than …

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Heat wave goes, stormy winds coming from the North. Sharp temperature drop. A tiny breeze started to blow from South/South-West around 4 0′ clock in the afternoon, Sunday . It was not exactly “cooling” but it did have a small effect and gave hope that the suffocating  heat wave of …

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