The weather will change on Friday 01/04, according to the latest weather forecast from the National Observatory of Athens. Rains will be mainly in the west and north of the country, and thunderstorms are possible from noon, which in some cases may be accompanied by hail. In the early hours of Saturday 02/04, bad weather […]
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Ithaca “dressed in white” – bulldozers were used to clean the roads
A heavy hailstorm hit Ithaca on Tuesday afternoon, February 22nd. The rainfall caused serious problems on the island. The phenomenon was so intense that the mayor of Ithaca, Dionysis Stanicas, said: “In order to be able to clean the streets, heavy equipment had to be used. We treated the situation as if it had snowed. […]
Bad weather in Attica: rain, storms and hail
It is expected that a wave of bad weather, which will bring rain, storms and hail, will come to Greece from today. According to the weather forecast from the National Observatory of Athens/Meteo.gr, the weather will change from noon on Wednesday 16/02, starting from Western Greece, where there will be heavy rain and thunderstorms. Natural […]
Unprecedented hail in Santorini and Paros (video)
An unprecedented hailstorm hit the island of Santorini on Thursday, which locals describe as “like stones falling from the sky.” Heavy hail and rain damaged vehicles and damaged agriculture, and temperatures at the popular summer resort dropped to 1 degree Celsius, an extremely rare occurrence on the island. The storm also disabled an airport runway […]
Weather: Cold snap, mud rain and hail
According to the forecast of the meteorologists of the National Observatory of Athens, from Saturday in most of Greece, including Attica, the weather will change dramatically. In particular, on 01/08/2022 the weather will deteriorate sharply, rain, thunderstorms and a cold snap are expected. In the mountainous regions of northern Greece – snowfalls. There is a […]
Saturday storm warning: thunderstorms, strong winds, hail
Greece’s national meteorological service, EMY, has issued a deteriorating weather alert with strong local thunderstorms, high winds and possible hail. Weather events are predicted from early Saturday morning on August 21, 2021. This will affect western and central Macedonia and gradually Thessaly, central Greece. From Saturday afternoon, these intense events will affect mainly Epirus, the […]
Winter in the middle of summer
Although most of the country can have fine weather, Epirus was hit by heavy hail on Saturday 10/07 amid heavy winds. Storm wind and hail were recorded by meteorologists in Epirus, cars were blocked. Cataclysms of nature never cease to amaze. According to eyewitnesses, “just a few minutes ago there was sunny weather, when a […]
Winter in the middle of summer: unprecedented hail damaged the harvest
Peach growers in Velvento talk about catastrophic weather damage. This refers to the hail that fell in the Kozani region. Bad weather also swept through Lamia, Grevin and Livadier. Bad weather hit several regions of Greece yesterday, bringing with it rainstorms, stormy winds and hail. Hazardous weather events are expected at noon and afternoon in […]