March 19, 2021
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Friday noon. the weather deterioration will be of relative short duration, and the main features of the bad weather front will be heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, powerful winds and snowfalls, locally dense. ΣΕ ΛΙΓΟ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ #ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟΥ ΔΕΛΤΙΟΥ ΑΠΟ #ΕΜΥ Επιδείνωση …
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February 18, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
Some 8 to 10 thousands households in northern Athens and the region of Attica remain without power on Thursday noon, many of them since Monday night. In addition, many have no water as the supply is directly connected to electricity operation. Furthermore, fallen trees on roads and vehicles and electricity …
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February 16, 2021
weather
Snow is the number one topic on Greek social media on Tuesday with thousands of Athenians posting pictures and footage of the white winter wonderland. they went out with their kids and dogs, played snowball-war and formed snowmen. People posted pictures of their dogs enjoying snow #white stuff good#Athens#χιονι pic.twitter.com/wqwYbmzKkU …
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February 16, 2021
FEATURED, Social, weather
Two people lost their lives in Evia and Crete as the heavy snow weather conditions prevented rescue teams from be on the spots in time. Late Tuesday afternoon it became known that another elderly lost his life in Evia due to extensive power outage. An 80-year-old man in Evia died …
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February 16, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, weather
Thousands of households in dozens of suburbs in Athens are without electricity for over 14 hours, some even without water. Public transport in Greek capital collapsed due to snowfall that is claimed to be the “heaviest in the last 15 years.” Covid-19 vaccinations have been suspended. Supermarkets will close at …
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February 15, 2021
weather
Snow and freezing temperatures also in capital Athens have paralyzed the Greek south mainland after police ordered the closure of the south part of the national highway connecting the Greek capital with the north of the country. Police closed the national network from the Kalyftaki junction in Kato Kifissia, subrub …
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February 14, 2021
weather
Snow weather front called “Medea” has been sweeping across Greece with heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures. First regions to be affected are the western, central and eastern Macedonia, Central Greece where temperatures plunged to -12.7° Celsius in Kastoria, -12.6°C in Kozani, -10.7°C in Florina. A man walks past a statue …
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February 11, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service issued a weather Red Alert on Thursday warning of dense snowfalls, sharp temperature drop up to 18 degrees Celsius and winds reaching up to 10 Beaufort in the coming days. Barometric low “Medea” is forecast to strike the country initially from the West and the North …
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January 26, 2021
FEATURED, weather
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 22, 2021
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a weather warning for the next few days due to consecutive barometric lows that will bring heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and gale-force south winds. The first wave of weather deterioration is forecast mainly in the West of the country from Saturday noon, January 23, …
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January 17, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY updated Sunday noon its warning of snow weather front “Leandros” that is currently sweeping across the country. The next wave of weather deterioration will bring snow, sleet, torrential rainfalls, thunderstorms, gale-force winds and total frost. The recent EMY weather warning has been updated as the …
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January 16, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Snow weather front “Leandros” dressed white many regions in north and central Greece, parts of the Peloponnese and even the mountains surrounding the Attica basin and the northern suburbs of Athens. Temperatures dropped significantly. Some parts of the national Athens-Thessaloniki highway have been reportedly closed for heavy trucks since 5:45 …
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January 14, 2021
FEATURED, weather
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 3, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a warning of a bad weather front that will bring intensive rainfalls, storms in coastal areas, locally accompanied by hailstorms, stormy winds and heavy snowfalls. The bad weather front is forecast to strike the country as of Sunday evening, January 3, and last until, …
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April 23, 2020
weather
What if April nears its end… Half Greece woke up in the middle of a snow landscape on Thursday, April 23, 2020. As meteorologists have forecast, the barometric low brought not only rainfalls but also snow, locally dense. In the mountainous areas of Karditsa, south-west Macedonia, snow started to fall …
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April 22, 2020
weather
A barometric low has brought temperature drop and powerful winds, snowfalls locally dense but also Sahara dust from the South. According to meteorologists, the “winter” in April is forecast to last until Thursday, April 23, 2020. A gradual weather improvement is expected as of Friday, although the weather will remain …
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April 4, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a red alert on extreme weather phenomena with gale force winds reaching up to 10 Beaufort, rainfalls, thunderstorms and snow. The country is forecast to be hit by two weather fronts: one coming from the North, affecting the central and northern parts of …
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April 1, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of sharp weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, temperature drop by 8-10 degrees Celsius, powerful northern winds up to 9 Beaufort and dense snowfalls even in low altitudes. The barometric low will affect a large part of the country on Wednesday and Thursday, …
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March 25, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) issued a weather warning with main features heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, snow in the highlands and stormy wind up to 8 and 9 Beaufort. The weather warning is issued for the time form March 25 until March 28, 2020. According to the weather warning, the …
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February 28, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a weather warning with its main features being heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, possibly accompanied with hailstorms, powerful North winds and snowstorms in the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions. According to the warning, the bad weather front will initially hit western and northern Greece on …
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