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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March 29, 2023
Tourism, Travel
Strong winds blowing in the Aegean Sea with intensity of up to 9 Beaufort have disrupted sea traffic already since Tuesday night, march 28, 2023. Ferries scheduled to depart from Piraeus port on Wednesday morning have been delayed. Check with KTG weather post here. Passengers who are planning to travel …
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January 19, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Ferries were forbidden to sail from the ports of Zakynthos and Kefalonia on Thursday morning, January 19, due to strong winds blowing in the southern Ionian Sea. According to Levante Ferries, the ferries from Poros (Kefalonia) to Kyllini departing at 9:00, from Zakynthos to Kyllini departing at 09:45 and from …
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December 19, 2022
Tourism, Travel
Greece’s Shipping Ministry issued on Monday a ban on sailing of ships and ferries due to gale-force winds in the Aegean Sea reaching up to 9 Beaufort. Ships will not be sailing from the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, and Lavrio to the islands of Cyclades, the Dodecanese and Crete. Ferries …
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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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October 18, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Ferries remain docked at the ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio also on Tuesday due to gusty northern winds blowing with intensity up to 8 and locally up to 9 Beaufort in the Aegean Sea. According to the data by the National Observatory of Athens, wind gusts reached 116 km/h …
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October 17, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism
Powerful northern winds blowing locally with intensity up to 9 Beaufort disrupt sea traffic in the Aegean Sea on Monday, October 17, 2022. Affected are mainly the routes to the Cyclades islands. Monday morning the schedules to Cyclades from the ports of Piraeus and Rafina, in South-East Attica,Problems, were canceled, …
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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 7, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Ferries for the Cyclades islands remained docked at the ports of Piraeus, Farina and Lavrio on Friday morning due to stormy winds blowing in several areas of the Aegean Sea. According to a warning issued by the National Meteorological Service EMY for the marine traffic, wind intensity reaches locally up …
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September 6, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Powerful winds blowing with intensity of up to 9 Beaufort have disrupted the departure of ferries from the mainland to the islands, especially to the Cyclades group. Ferries were unable to depart the ports of Rafina for Cyclades and Lavrio in south-eastern Attica on Tuesday morning due to rough sea, …
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June 6, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Monday warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, accompanied by a high frequency of lightning, locally hail-falls and temporary strong winds. via EMY Managing director Thodoris Kolydas Deterioration comes after a hot weekend in the most parts of …
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January 31, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Monday noon drawing attention to an upcoming bad weather front with main features heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, dense snowfalls and stormy winds of intensity 8 to 9 Beaufort. The bad weather front is forecast to start on Tuesday noon, February …
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November 29, 2021
weather
Stormy southern winds have been disrupting sea travel in Greece on Monday and Tuesday, November 29-30, 2021. According to National Meteorological Service, winds are blowing with intensity of 7-8 Beaufort locally and up to 9 B in the Ionian Sea. Several ferries had to cancel their schedules from the port …
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September 6, 2021
weather
Powerful north-eastern winds blowing with intensity of up to 8-9 Beaufort have caused disruption to maritime traffic in the Aegean Sea on Monday. According to state-run news agency amna disrupted are some ferry and catamaran commercial lines. The Agia Marina-Nea Styra ferry was not running on Monday. Catamaran ‘Flying Cat …
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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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August 4, 2020
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning on Tuesday about a deterioration with heavy thunderstorms locally accompanied by hail and powerful winds. The weather deterioration is forecast to set in the in early morning hours of Wednesday, August 5, 2020, and will initially strike the north-western parts of …
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July 4, 2020
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a warning of a temporary weather deterioration with rainfalls and locally heavy thunderstorms, powerful winds and temperature drop. The bad weather front is forecast to strike initially the mountainous and semi-mountainous regions in northern Greece as of Saturday noon (July 4) and last …
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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 7, 2020
weather
Greece National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning until Monday, March 9. 2020. Main features of the weather deterioration are heavy rainfalls, strong thunderstorms. Hailstorms are expected locally. Powerful South winds blowing with intensity of up to 7 and 8 Beaufort in the Ionian and the Aegean Sea. …
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December 9, 2019
weather
Barometric low “Dido” is forecast to strike the largest parts of Greece with heavy rain- and snowfalls, powerful thunderstorms and stormy winds. The Greek National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a “red alert” on Monday warning of the upcoming intense weather phenomena. The weather warning is valid from Dec 9 …
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