March 16, 2023
FEATURED, weather
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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March 15, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s Meteorological Service EMY issue an emergency bulletin warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms, locally possibly accompanied by hail and stormy winds. The bad weather front is forecast to hit Greece starting on Wednesday, March 13, and lasting until Friday, March 17, 2023. There will be snow …
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March 10, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s Health Ministry has issued an announcement drawing the public’s attention to mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever and the Zika and Chikungunya viruses. The ministry has sent a circular to all health authorities in the country to take emergency measures to combat mosquitoes, especially within environments with potential mosquito breeding …
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February 15, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Organization for Medicines EOF, issued an announcement on Tuesday warning consumers that the product KSM-66 Ashwagandha contains opioid drugs and specifically heroin in unknown concentration. Product KSM-66 Ashwagandha of the Medicine Garden company which is marketed in Europe, and therefore is possibly also distributed in Greece, as well …
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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 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 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Greek Coast Guard has announced it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off the island of Kos and arrested three alleged Turkish nationals traffickers on Thursday night. Video released by the Greek Coast Guard Both boats ignored warnings to stop and tried to ram Coast Guard …
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January 25, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Residents on the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea and the Achaia prefecture in western Peloponnese were alerted of upcoming dangerous weather phenomena with an emergency warning sms via <112>. The message urged them to minimize travel and take protective measures due to strong rain and gale-force winds. The …
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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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January 9, 2023
FEATURED, weather
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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January 4, 2023
Turkey-GR
Ibrahim Kalin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman and chief foreign policy adviser, has warned of “serious consequences” for Greece if it extends its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles around Crete. “Turkey will not accept any extension, even by a single mile,” Kalin told NTV television late Tuesday, adding …
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December 9, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of a weather deterioration with main features to be heavy rainfalls locally, thunderstorms locally accompanied by hail and gale-force south winds. According to the weather warning, the deterioration will come form the North-west on Saturday afternoon, December 10, and gradually move to the rest …
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December 1, 2022
weather
Bad weather front ARIEL keeps on hitting Greece with rain, storms and powerful winds , causing serious problems and damages in several regions of the country. From Attica to Thessaloniki, to the island of Skopelos and western Macedonia and Halkidiki the damage from the heavy rains and storms that fell …
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November 29, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a RED ALERT weather warning on Tuesday as bad weather front “Ariel” is forecast to hit the country with heavy rainfalls and powerful thunderstorms with high frequency of lightning especially in coastal areas. Stormy south winds are forecast to blow with intensity 7-8 Beaufort. …
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November 21, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service issued an emergency bulletin on Monday warning of a weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms as well as gale-force winds. Coming from the West, the bad weather front is forecast to strike Greece as of Tuesday afternoon, November 22, 2022 and gradually move to the …
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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 13, 2022
FEATURED, weather
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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October 6, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a warning for the sea traffic due to powerful northern winds in the Aegean Sea. Gusty winds many disrupt sea traffic. Winds blowing with intensity of 7 to 8 Beaufort and locally up to 9 are forecast on Thursday, EMY warned in its emergency …
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September 26, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Monday warning of weather deterioration in the upcoming hours. Main features of the bad weather front are heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms accompanied by a big number of thunder bolts, local hail-falls and very strong winds. The bad weather front called …
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