March 27, 2024
environment, FEATURED
Scanty rainfalls and even less snowfalls had a settlement in western Greece emerging from waters of a lake 32 years later. The ghost-village of Kalatheika emerged from the waters of the artificial lake of Evinolimni in the mountainous area of Nafpaktia in early spring. The prolonged drought and the complete …
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January 30, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Trucks have been “trapped” in various parts of the Athens-Lamia National Highway due to the traffic ban on heavy vehicles over 3.5 tones because of the snow that ultimately …did not fall in the area. Truck owners and drivers are angry and speak of a “fiasco” as there is neither …
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January 28, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin warning of a weather deterioration with heavy snow- and rainfalls and stormy winds reaching up to 10 Beaufort in the following days. The weather will gradually deteriorate as of Sunday, January 28, and will continue to affect the country until Wednesday, …
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January 25, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Another, in fact two cold weather fronts with snow and ice-cold northern winds is on the way to Greece and will affect the country over the weekend and the beginning of next week. The first weather outbreak is forecast on Sunday, January 28, while the second one will hit the …
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January 19, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin warning of a weather deterioration with sharp temperature drop by 8 to 10 degrees Celsius and snowfalls mainly in the central and northern mainland. At the same time, stormy winds of up to 9 Beaufort will prevail in the Aegean Sea, …
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January 18, 2024
weather
Greece has been experiencing a prolonged fair weather all through the winter, so far, with sunny days and temperatures over 15 degrees Celsius even if with short intervals of bad weather. It is the first time ever that quite some plants on my balcony are blooming in January, and the …
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January 9, 2024
FEATURED, weather
The first snow of 2024 started falling on the Mt. Parnitha over 900 meters on Tuesday afternoon, forcing authorities to shut down to traffic the avenue of the same name in north-western Athens. Police announced the closure of the avenue citing snowfall and ice conditions. Snowplows have been deployed out …
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November 24, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Friday warning of a cold weather front with snowfalls and rainfalls, gale-force winds both in the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, storms and significant temperature drop. According to EMY, a deep barometric low coming from the north-northwest accompanied by a …
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November 16, 2023
FEATURED, weather
A massive weather deterioration with the first snowfalls is underway on upcoming weekend November 18-19, 2023. Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Thursday afternoon. Main features of the weather deterioration are forecast to be: Gale force winds of 8 to 9 Beaufort and gusts up to …
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April 2, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Sunday, warning of a weather deterioration with intense phenomena such as heavy rainfalls and storms, high frequency of lightning, hail, stormy winds, Sahara dust and snow. The bad weather front comes from Italy with local meteorologists to have named it …
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February 8, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Snowfalls will continue late on Wednesday and also on Thursday, February 8-9, and Greece’s National Meteorological Service updated its weather warning on cold front “Barbara”. Snow, sleet and frost are the main features for the next hours. Schools will be closed in some suburbs of Attica. Weather Warning Wednesday (08/02/2023) …
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February 7, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s Civil Protection issued a series of measures for Wednesday, February 8, due to snowfalls in large parts of Attica and other regions. The measures refer to civil servants, couriers & delivery as well as retail stores and traffic in national highways. These measures are: Public sector workers will arrive …
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February 7, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY updated its Emergency bulletin on Snow Weather “Barbara” for the next two days, Τuesday and Wednesday, February 7-9, 2023. Snowfalls will intensify from the evening hours of Tuesday and mainly in the midnight hours of Wednesday in low-altitude areas of Magnesia, Eastern Central Greece (Fthiotida, …
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February 7, 2023
FEATURED, weather
The regional government of Attica decided to have schools shut down also on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 as the snow weather will continue. However, not all of primary and secondary public and private schools across Attica will be shut as the snowfalls will not be severe everywhere. The schools of …
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February 6, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Schools in some suburbs of Athens will remain closed also on Tuesday and workers can go to work not earlier than 10 a.m. as snow weather deterioration is forecast over night with frost phenomena early in the morning. Schools will be closed also on the islands of Evia, Samos, Lesvos …
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February 5, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Schools and kindergartens in Attica will remain closed on Monday and public servants can do tele-working due to snow falls and adverse weather conditions authorities announced on Sunday afternoon. According to latest weather forecast, heavy snowfalls, sleet, powerful winds and icy conditions are due at the start of the week. …
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February 3, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of cold weather front “Barbara” that will hit the country with main features locally dense snowfalls even in lowland areas, freezing temperatures,stormy north winds of up to 8-9 Beaufort and frost. Cold air masses will be moving to the south from northern Europe and …
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February 1, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Head of National Meteorological Service Thodoris Kolidas painted “dragons in the clouds” and trolled Greek meteorologists and weather presenters for their claims of “heavy snow weather.” The snow weather “controversy” erupted already last week, the moment the heavy rain weather was over and some meteorologists immediately started heralding an upcoming …
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January 24, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY updated its previous emergency bulletin warning of further weather deterioration in the upcoming days. EMY warns of “successive waves of bad weather” that will affect the country from Tuesday to Saturday, January 24-27, 2023. Main features of the bad weather are forecast to be heavy …
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January 19, 2023
FEATURED, weather
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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