March 16, 2023
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service updated on Thursday its weather warning and extended it until Saturday, March 18, 2023. The update forecasts heavy rainfalls, powerful winds and possible hail storms in several regions across the country, with the islands expected to be heavily hit. Winds will be blowing with intensity 0f …
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January 19, 2023
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin for a weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and snow in the mountainous areas. The weather deterioration follows prolonged sunny days in January with temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius. According to EMY’s emergency weather report, successive waves of bad weather …
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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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November 23, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY updated on Wednesday its weather warning that had issued on Monday. There are no substantial differences to the previous warning and bad weather front will hit mostly the islands. According to the updated weather warning, heavy rainfalls and storms are forecast for: the islands of …
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October 13, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency billeting warning of a bad weather front forecast to affect the country from Thursday night to Sunday morning, October 13-16, 2022. According to head of the EMY, Thodoris Kolydas, the barometric low in the Ionian Sea will bring heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms …
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July 9, 2022
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Torrential rainfalls have been hitting several parts of Greece from the north to the south, flooding streets, homes and businesses and destroying infrastructure. The sporades islands but also Thassos were badly hurt by the rainstorms, while Crete was hit as well. Two bridges collapsed, streets turned into rivers and tourists …
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May 28, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of weather deterioration with locally strong rainfalls and thunderstorms that will most possible be accompanied with hailfalls. The weather warning issued for Sunday, May 29, 2020, comes after a mini heatwave with temperatures up to 38 degrees Celsius during the week that ends on …
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May 17, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, powerful winds and noticeable drop of temperature. The bad weather front is forecast to be of relative short duration and affect the northern, the western and central parts of the country before it …
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March 3, 2022
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With an inflatable dinghy and a tractor rescuers managed to bring 22 citizens into safety near Heraklio on the island of Crete late on Wednesday. The people were trapped inside their cars at the flooded parking lot of a stadium in Treis Vavies when the Giofyros river burst its banks. …
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January 31, 2022
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Monday noon drawing attention to an upcoming bad weather front with main features heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, dense snowfalls and stormy winds of intensity 8 to 9 Beaufort. The bad weather front is forecast to start on Tuesday noon, February …
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January 10, 2022
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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 2, 2021
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Greece’ National Meteorological Service issued a warning of a bad weather front with main characteristics heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and stormy winds. Τhe bad weather front is coming from the West and will hit first the Ionian islands on Friday morning, December 3, while the phenomena including hail are forecast …
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November 25, 2021
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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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November 22, 2021
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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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July 18, 2021
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Greece’s Νational Meteorological Service issued a warning on extreme weather phenomena with heavy rain falls, powerful thunderstorms accompanied locally by hailstorms and strong winds. According to the warning, the bad weather front will be of short duration of up to two days and is forecast to affect mostly central and …
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March 30, 2021
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning especially for the islands in central and south-eastern Aegean Sea, including the island of Crete. EMY has warned of heavy rainfalls and strong thunderstorms and gale-force winds up 9 Beaufort. The barometric low will be of short duration, of no longer …
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January 26, 2021
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A new cold weather front with heavy rainfalls and storms, snowfalls even at low altitudes, gale-force winds up to 8-9 Beaufort and temperature drop of up to 12 degrees Celsius reached the western parts of Greece on Tuesday morning. The wave of bad weather, which will grip the entire country …
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January 14, 2021
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Cold front “Leandros” with dense snowfalls and very low temperatures has started sweeping across Greece and the National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a weather warning. The cold snap will bring snowfalls in areas of a higher altitude in northern and central Greece but even in the lowlands of Macedonia, …
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January 11, 2021
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of weather deterioration with heavy rainflls and powerful winds lat on Monday, Jan 11, 2021, and sharp temperature drop and partially dense snowfall as of Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021. Coming from the North-West, the bad weather front is forecast to strike the western Greece …
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July 2, 2020
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A mini heat wave with temperatures up to 40 degrees Celsius has been hitting Greece, despite the “meltemia”, the summer north winds. The features of this rather unstable weather are bright sunshine, high temperatures but also local rainfalls, showers and thunderstorms are forecast for the following days. According to meteorologists, …
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