August 19, 2024
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued an emergency bulletin warning of a weather deterioration with heavy rain showers and storms, locally accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and hail falls. At the same time, the intense weather phenomena have already hit the country causing flooding and damages mostly …
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August 4, 2023
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin weather on Friday warning of heavy rainfalls and storms over the weekend, August 5-6, 2023. via EMY director ThoodorisKolydas A weather system called PETAR, as named by the Italian Meteorological Service, moving eastward, is predicted to cause a temporary worsening of …
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January 9, 2023
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Greece’s National Mmeteorological Service EMY issued a warning on Monday, January 9, about an upcoming weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, hail and gale-force winds of 8 and locally up to 9 Beaufort. The weather deterioration follows a prolonged fair weather period since the start of December with average …
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August 11, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin warning of weather instability with rainfalls, thunderstorms and even hail. The warning is valid for the upcoming three days, August 12-14, 2022, while the peak of the bad weather is forecast on Sunday, with a high frequency of lightning and hail. …
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June 6, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Monday warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, accompanied by a high frequency of lightning, locally hail-falls and temporary strong winds. via EMY Managing director Thodoris Kolydas Deterioration comes after a hot weekend in the most parts of …
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February 4, 2022
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Unprecedented hail fall hit the island of Santorini on Thursday which locals describe “as if stones were falling from the sky.” The heavy hail- and rain-storm damaged vehicles and agriculture and temperature on the popular summer destination plunged to 1 degree Celsius. The storm also rendered the runway of the …
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December 5, 2021
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Greece’ National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Sunday of intense phenomena forecast for Monday and Tuesday, December 6-7, 2021. Main features of the bad weather front are heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and stormy to gale winds up to 8 Beaufort. Weather warning Analytically: Heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms …
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September 28, 2021
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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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August 12, 2021
weather
Wildfires broke out in western Attica and Halkidiki most possibly caused by a so-called “dry thunderstorm” sweeping on the Greek mainland on Wednesday evening. The phenomenon was observed also in Athens where the dry thunderstorm was followed by very powerful North-East winds with gust up to 9 Beaufort a few …
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October 20, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY upgraded to Red Alert the weather warning for the islands in the South Aegean Sea, that is Crete, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese. According to EMY’s new warning on Wednesday, heavy rainfall with thunderstorms and locally also hail fall are forecast on Wednesday, October 21, …
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September 28, 2020
weather
Greece’s meteorological services warn of a weather deterioration with heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and powerful winds up to 7-8 Beaufort. The bad weather front will be of short duration but powerful. Both the National Meteorological Service (EMY) and and National Observatory of Athens warn that the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms are …
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August 25, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a weather warning with main features strong rainfalls, thunderstorms, hail-storms and powerful winds. The weather deterioration will set in early Tuesday evening, August 25, 2020, and will last for less than 24 hours. Tuesday, August 25 Most affected will be the regions of …
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August 4, 2020
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Tuesday about a deterioration with heavy thunderstorms locally accompanied by hail and powerful winds. The weather deterioration is forecast to set in the in early morning hours of Wednesday, August 5, 2020, and will initially strike the north-western parts of …
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July 5, 2020
weather
Strong hail falls hit western Macedonia and Central Greece destroying of thousands of hectares of crops. Torrential rains turned roads into rivers and flooded homes and businesses. In Drosero village by Kozani the hail stroke without mercy. Village Pylori Locals told media of “unprecedented volumes of rain water in a …
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July 4, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a warning of a temporary weather deterioration with rainfalls and locally heavy thunderstorms, powerful winds and temperature drop. The bad weather front is forecast to strike initially the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions in northern Greece as of Saturday noon (July 4) and last …
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June 21, 2020
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a warning about a sudden weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms accompanied locally by hail and temporary powerful winds. The bad weather front is coming form the North staring on Sunday afternoon, June 21, 2020. It will initially hit the northern and central …
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June 17, 2020
weather
An unprecedented hailstorm hit the city of Drama in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday and caused widespread problems in many areas of the city in north-eastern Greece. The volume of hail was so big that dense layers reaching up to 30-40 cm were formed. The Drama Municipality sent excavators …
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December 12, 2019
weather
Heavy rain, lightning and thunderbolts came with barometric low “Dido” that swept across Greece in the last few days. Damages mainly in infrastructure were recorded in Halkidiki, Evia and Central Greece. An amazing spectacle was captured on the island of Tinos of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea on …
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November 11, 2019
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a press release warning of extreme weather phenomena and powerful winds up to 10 Beaufort to strike Greece on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 12-13, 2019. At the same time, local meteorologists warn of a Medicane that is being formed in the Central Mediterranean Sea. …
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October 30, 2019
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a weather warning Wednesday noon about heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and sharp temperature decrease. The extreme weather phenomena may be locally accompanied by hail-falls and powerful winds up to 7 Beaufort. Meteorologists forecast sharp temperature drop by 9 degrees Celsius in northern Greece. The …
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