November 30, 2022
FEATURED, weather
In the grip of rain and storm bad weather front ARIEL are many regions in Greece, including Attica, since Wednesday morning. Repeated 112 sms messages were sent to residents of seven regions, warning them of dangerous phenomena and urging them to avoid unnecessary traveling. The first regions to receive the …
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November 6, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Streets in the port of Piraeus turned into rivers and a garbage bin took a lonesome ride between cars and their motorists struck in the waters, as storm EVA reached Attica on Sunday. The storm affected mainly the south suburbs and meteorologists had warned of flooding phenomena. It needed just …
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November 5, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
The General Secretariat of Trade & Consumer Protection revoked on Saturday a decision to open retail stores throughout the country Sunday, November 6, due to storm EVA. The opening, which is optional and not mandatory, was moved to next Sunday, November 13, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., the secretariat …
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November 5, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Storm EVA has already started to affect Greece and rainfalls have been recorded in the Ionian islands and parts of the West of the country since Saturday morning. Watch Live STORM EVA Saturday noon, the National Meteorological Service EMY has updated its RED ALERT emergency bulletin from Thursday, however, there …
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October 15, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix, weather
The island of Corfu was declared in “state of emergency” late on Thursday after torrential rains flooded homes and businesses, destroyed infrastructure, agriculture and live stock thus endangering human lives. 69 people in total had to be evacuated with boats or helicopters as they were trapped in the floods. Many …
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October 10, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society, weather
Rainfalls on Saturday caused serious damages along the Agia Anna-Achladia-Kotsikia in northern Evia that was greatly destroyed during the forest fires in August. Dozens of flooded homes and businesses, broken infrastructure and landslides, and a new nightmare for the people who face anothe rmore disaster with the first rainfall of …
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October 7, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Main roads on the island of Corfu turned into rivers on Thursday, house yards and basements were flooded, power outages occurred, small landslides took place and problems were registered in the provincial network after bad weather front “Athena” hit the island in the northern Ionian Sea. The Fire Service had …
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October 13, 2020
weather
The storm that hit Attica in early morning Tuesday caused unprecedented damages in several suburbs of the Greek capital. Mostly affected was Neo Heraklio in north-western Athens, where heavy rainfall and powerful winds uprooted dozens of trees and power columns, and broke even windows in houses and other buildings. Three …
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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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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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November 25, 2019
Very Mix
With full power storm “Geryon” stroke the beach town of Kinetta in West Attica in the night from Sunday to Monday causing unprecedented destruction. Dozens of calls to Fire Service to evacuate people from flooded homes. One 44-year-old man has been reportedly missing. “We heard a loud noise and within …
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October 8, 2019
weather
Streets turned into rivers, homes and shops were flooded, landslides occurred, vehicles were swept away form the waters of flooded rivers and streams and motorists were trapped in their cars after a heavy rain- and thunderstorm hit several islands of the Cyclades group in the Central Aegean Sea on Monday …
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October 4, 2019
weather
It was short after 2:30 Friday afternoon when a weird, continuous sound coming from nowhere was heard. initially it was a “Toc!” here and a “Toc!” there and within minutes the feeling of being “bombarded” from all sides. A hail storm in Athens and the sound of hail balls knocking …
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October 3, 2019
environment, Uncategorized, weather
A spectacular phenomenon appeared in the sky over Greek capital Athens, short before the storm on Thursday afternoon. A so-called “Shelf Cloud” swallowed the Greek capital a few moments before the storm broke out. According to the meteo service of the National Observatory in Athens, a shelf cloud is at …
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October 3, 2019
weather
Homes and businesses were flooded, waterspouts were formed and power outages have taken place as a bad weather front stroke West Greece on Thursday. The island of Corfu, the regions of Messologhi and Agrinio in western mainland as well as Ilia in West Peloponnese were badly hit. Here comes the …
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September 24, 2019
weather
Thunderbolts have killed two men in West Peloponnese as severe thunderstorms have been striking West Greece since Tuesday morning. Homes and streets were flooded in Ilia Prefecture, large areas without power. On the island of Kefalonia, mud floods covered the streets of seaside village Agia Efthymia. A 35-year-old man was …
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September 20, 2019
weather
Homes and businesses were flooded and motorists were trapped in their cars when the bad weather front stroke Thessaloniki in North Greece on Thursday night. At the same time, a hail fall that lasted half an hour covered the roads with millions of ice balls and destroyed agricultural products in …
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July 13, 2019
Social
Day 3 after the deadly storm in Halkidiki: Devastation. Demolished businesses, houses without a roof. Settlements without electricity and water. Where power has been restored, people try to fix the damages and bring their lives back to normality. Not an easy task. Fixing the damages requires time and money. The …
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July 11, 2019
weather
The body of a missing Greek fisherman was recovered by the Greek Coast Guard early Thursday afternoon some 6 nautical miles off the coast between Sozopolis and Nea Kallikratia. The 62-year-old man, a fisherman by profession, went fishing on Wednesday afternoon just a few hours before the deadly freak storm …
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July 11, 2019
weather
Six people died and more than 100 were injured when a powerful storm with gale-force winds and a tornado hit the peninsula of Halkidiki in northern Greece on Wednesday night. Majority of the injured and the six dead are tourists. Among the dead are two children. An information about a …
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