Tag Archives: winds

One more heat wave is striking Greece with temperatures that will reach up to 43 degrees Celsius over the first weekend of August 2019 with the Greek National Meteorological Service (EMY)  to have issued a warning to this effect. However, next to the soaring temperatures the unstable weather will bring …

Read More »

Weather will remain unstable over the weekend, with clouds, rain showers and local thunderstorms in several regions of Greece. At the same time, temperatures will remain high and strong North winds (meltemia) will blow in the Aegean Sea. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast in Thessaly, the Sporades islands, North Evia …

Read More »

Stormy summer winds, the meltemia, increase the risk of wild fires in Greece. According to a weather warning issued by Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY, North winds will be blowing with intensity of 7 and 8 Beaufort on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Affected are areas in the North-East, Central and …

Read More »

Greece’s National Meteorology Service issued a warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and powerful storms that will be locally accompanied by hail falls and strong winds. According to the weather warning issue don Saturday, the weather deterioration will set in the evening hours of Sunday, May 12th 2019, initially …

Read More »

Greek authorities ordered ferries to remain docked at the ports of Piraeus on Friday noon due to powerful winds blowing with intensity of up to 9 and 10 Beaufort in the South and the East. The ferries ban from Piraeus will be in power until 6:00 p.m. at least. No …

Read More »

Heavy snow-falls on the north-aegean island of Samothraki make traffic impossible as they are accompanied by powerful north winds striking with up to 116 km/h. Snowplows from local authorities and the Greek Army started to work since the early morning hours in order to improve the situation on the traffic …

Read More »

Greek port authorities have banned ferries from sailing in the Aegean Sea due to gale-force South-West winds reaching 8 to 9 Beaufort and at times also up to 10 in the North Aegean Sea. Ferries with destination the islands of East Aegean, Cyclades, Crete and Dodecanese remain docked at the …

Read More »

Greece’s National Meteorology Service (EMY) warns of continuation of gale winds on the the county’s mainland and especially the seas whre are expected to reach locally up to 10 Beuafort. In a statement issued at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the EMY forecasts of winds blowing with intensity of up to 10 …

Read More »

Winds down, temperatures up. Or in meteorologists’ language: Beaufort decrease, Celsius increase. Weather forecasters speak of a prolonged heat wave up to 41 degrees Celsius. Temperature will gradually rise over the weekend and will affect initially Western Greece. Then the hell will grab large parts of the country from North …

Read More »

Wildfires are raging in east Mani in southern Peloponnese. A village has been evacuated, houses were burned down. Many breeders tried to save their animals in a ‘suffocating atmosphere, however hundreds of animals were burned alive. Locals complain about fire brigades delays and bad coordination. Fire fighters have been battling …

Read More »

Greece’s first virtual net-metering PV system is installed on the rooftop of a school in Thessaloniki, the country’s second biggest city. The system is funded by Greenpeace Greece but is not yet connected to the grid, as it is waiting for the ministry to pass a new law. Net-metering (or …

Read More »