Greece

The first snow of the holiday season fell in Northern Greece late Monday night, sprinkling towns outside of Thessaloniki and Komotini with a light layer of delicate flakes. While temperatures have begun to fall across the country, the air is...

The Athens-Lamia Highway shut down completely for approximately five hours on Monday afternoon due to heavy snowfall. The highway is the main artery which connects the city of Athens with Lamia and then continues all the way north up to...

Meteorologists warned on Friday morning that the new weather front dubbed ''Zenobia'' is expected to bring extensive snowfall to many parts of Greece between Saturday, December 28 and Tuesday, December 31. Zenobia will bring freezing temperatures to the entire country, with...

A new low-pressure weather system dubbed ''Sophia'' is heading south from the polar ice cap and is expected to reach most areas throughout the nation of Greece on Thursday. The new bout of wintry weather follows the storm named ''Raphael'',...

Heavy snowfall is expected in northern Greece, even at low altitudes, during Thursday and Friday according to the Meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens. According to the weather service, light snow may also fall in southern Greece. Snow...

As the temperatures continued to plummet across the country, Athens' Parnitha mountain was hit by heavy snowfall on Thursday night and Friday morning. The mountain, located north of the Greek capital, was covered in snow from the early hours of Thursday...

As the temperature continues to plummet across Greece, the snowfall as accumulated in many mountainous areas in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace on Saturday morning. People in mountainous villages in Florina, Naoussa, Pelion, Trikala, Grevena, Metsovo and even as south as...

Parts of central Greece were covered by snow on Friday, the first of the season. The mountainous villages around Trikala in Thessaly were the first to welcome winter, and meteorologists predict that temperatures will drop significantly over the next few...

Parts of central and northern Greece are covered in a blanket of snow as a low-pressure weather front hit much of the country over the weekend. The front, dubbed "Leto", has brought snow storms even at low attitudes and a...

Weather conditions will deteriorate as of Thursday evening with heavy snowfall expected even in lowland areas. Northerly winds will reach 8 to 9 on the Beaufort scale in the Aegean and the temperatures will post significant drop. Snow will fall...

The harsh weather conditions of the past 24 hours in Greece have left one man dead, power outages and traffic problems in many areas. On Thursday afternoon a 76-year-old man in Iasmos in the Rhodope region was killed when heavy...

Thursday Greeks in Athens woke up to the surrounding Parnitha and Ymmitos mountains covered with snow from top to bottom -- something that is a rare sight in the Mediterranean capital city. The forecast for the remainder of the day in...

Traffic on mountainous Parnitha Avenue was interrupted at the section where the cable car leads to the Casino Mont Parnes due to heavy snowfall, traffic police said on Wednesday. Greece is experiencing a cold spell which will affect Athens...

Weather conditions will deteriorate starting from Wednesday with heavy snowfall expected even in lowland areas. Northerly winds will reach 8 to 9 in the Beaufort scale in the Aegean and the temperatures will post significant drop. On Wednesday snow...

The first snowfall covered many mountainous and semi-mountainous areas in northern, central and southern Greece on Tuesday. The national weather service has advised that temperatures are expected to drop below zero in the next few days in many parts of...