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 […]
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Roads closed in Attica and Viotia due to snow and ice
Greek police stopped traffic on the mountain roads of Attica and Viotia due to snow and ice. Authorities in the northern and mountainous regions have closed schools, asking residents to limit movement on the roads and, if possible, not to leave their homes. Due to snowfall, the movement of trucks is prohibited on the old […]
Three houses evacuated in East Attica
Three small apartment buildings in eastern Attica have been evacuated as they are gradually swallowed up by subsidence following heavy rains, state broadcaster ERT reported on Saturday. Three buildings are located next to each other on the banks of a stream in the village of Neos-Voudzas, a suburb of the port city of Rafina. Just […]
Greece Extreme Weather Warning: Heavy Rains, Thunderstorms, Hurricane Winds
Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a deteriorating weather alert with intense weather events such as heavy rains, thunderstorms and hurricane winds. The weather is predicted to start worsening on Thursday evening, December 9, gradually affecting the entire country and continuing until early Sunday morning, December 12, 2021. Thursday evening to Friday noon: 9-10 December: […]
Houses, shops and a kindergarten in southern Athens flooded due to rain
Homes, shops and streets were flooded and people were trapped in their homes and cars in southern Athens when heavy rain hit the Greek capital on Tuesday evening. The fire department received dozens of requests for help. note that flooded areas Kallithea, Moschato, Neo Faliro are in close proximity to the Athens government’s “flood control” […]
Weather Alert: Heavy Rains and Thunderstorms
Greece’s national meteorological service, EMY, issued a warning of a sharp deterioration in the weather with showers and thunderstorms, in places with hail. The bad weather front is approaching the country from the west on Monday, November 22, and will quickly move east, central and southeastern Greece until Wednesday, November 24, 2021. Weather forecast analytically […]
Increase in heavy precipitation by 15% over the past 30 years
Over the past 30 years, Athens has seen an increase in heavy rainfall (the so-called tropical), which can cause floods and natural disasters. As noted by the researchers at the National Observatory of Athens in their study (Dr. Dimitra Funta and Professor Nikos Michalopoulos) in the context of CLIMPACT, “comparisons of the last 30 years […]
When cyclone Balos leaves Athens
Cyclone “Balos”, which since yesterday morning hit the central part of Greece and directly on Athens, is in no hurry to leave Attica. At the moment, its center is located south of the island of Ithaca and in the next day it will quickly move to central Greece and to Halkidiki, continuing to carry with […]
Schools in Attica and other regions closed on October 15 after students were evacuated (video)
Following an unprecedented evacuation of students from a flooded school in western Athens, authorities have decided to close all schools in the Attica area, including Athens, Piraeus and the suburbs, on Friday October 15, 2021, as weather is forecast to deteriorate due to cyclone Ballos. Day and night schools in the same areas are closed […]