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Greece weather: National Meteo warns of storm ILINA

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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Snowfalls to continue on Thursday: Updated warning

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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Civil Protection measures due to snow in Attica, other regions

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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Snow Weather “Barbara”: Updated weather warning

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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Snow Weather: Schools in several Attica parts closed on Wed

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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Athens braces for second snow-wave on Tuesday (schools, measures)

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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Head of Greece’s Meteo EMY trolls “heavy snow” predictions

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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EMY Warning: New bad weather front to hit Greece

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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Greece Weather Warning: Rainfalls, Thunderstorms, Snow

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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First snow falls on ski resorts in northern Greece (video)

The first snow of the year has covered landscapes in northern Greece’s ski resorts as a result of the temporary deterioration of weather conditions. This is the first snow to fall on the slopes and may not be enough for skiers, however it gives fans of winter sports a reason …

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Hellenic Train fined €300K for stranding passengers, poor service

Rail operator Hellenic Train SA was fined 300,000 euros by Greece’s Railroad Regulatory Authority (RAS) for stranding 820 passengers in harsh weather conditions on January 24, when five trains were stuck on the major north-south train route of Greece. Following a months-long review of Hellenic Train, a subsidiary of Ferrovie …

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Weekend Weather: Sahara Dust, Rain, Snow, Temperature drop

A gradual change of weather is forecast over the weekend as a barometric low coming from North Africa moves to Greece with main feature very high concentration of Sahara dust but also rainfalls and sharp temperature drop. The concentration of Sahara dust is forecast to be very high in the …

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National Meteo warns of dense snow in Athens and Greece’s South (videos)

One day before the official start of the spring and Athenians woke up with freezing temperatures and snow falling even in areas of the center of the city. The National Meteorological Service EMY issued a emergency bulletin warning of heavy snowfalls in the Greek capital and even more south in …

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Updated Weather Warning as snow weather Philip keeps hitting Greece

Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has updated its emergency bulletin on Friday noon warning of dangerous weather phenomena due to snow weather “Philip.” The update of the weather warning issued on Tuesday, March 8, is based on the latest forecast data. According to EMY, the main features of the bad …

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Snow weather: Some schools in Attica closed on Friday; heavy trucks banned from highway parts

Primary and secondary schools in parts of northern, eastern and western Attica will remain closed also on Friday, March 11, due to snow weather “Philip”, regional authorities announced on Thursday. Hay trucks are banned from highway parts as of 10 p.m. Thursday. According to a statement by the Attica regional …

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