Weather
Greek News
Winter Storm Provides Rare Glimpse of Snowy Athens
The Winter storm "Medea" left Athens, including the city's ancient sites, blanketed in snow on Tuesday.
Featuring a thick layer of white, fluffy snow, the Greek capital's famed monuments and neighborhoods have taken on a new beauty which only adds...
Greek News
Parts of Greece Left Without Power, Three Dead as Heavy Snow Storm Hits
While heavy snowfall across the country has resulted in beautiful, wintry scenes, it has also caused major problems in Greece, especially in Attica, the home to Greece's capital city of Athens.
Many of Attica's residents, as well as those living...
Greek News
Snow Blankets Athens Causing Traffic Havoc
A thick layer of snow covered Athens on Monday night creating havoc in the Greek capital.
Greek News
Snowfall Shuts Down Main Highway as Freezing Temperatures Grip Greece
Heavy snowfall which has made driving conditions very hazardous led Greek authorities on Monday morning to close the Athens-Thessaloniki highway just north of the Greek capital.
The northern suburbs of Athens, particularly Drosia, Dionysus, and Agios Stefanos, have already recorded...
Greek News
Cold Front “Medea” Approaches Athens, Leaves Northern Greece Snowy
After touching down in northern Greece on Saturday, the cold front Medea has continued to bring down temperatures across the country on Sunday.
The cold front, which has blanketed much of northern Greece in snow, originated as cold masses of...
Greek News
Cold Front Medea Brings Snow to Northern Greece
After a period of unseasonably warm weather across the country, the cold front "Medea" brought frigid temperatures and snowfall to northern Greece on Saturday.
Currently, snowfall and ice-cold temperatures have been recorded across Northern Greece, particularly in Florina, Kozani, Kastoria,...
Greece
Vaccination Platform Now Open to 75-79 Year Old Greek Citizens
The platform for coronavirus vaccinations for all those Greek citizens who are between the ages of 75-79 opened on Friday as the nation grapples with the storm "Medea," which will bring snow, rain and high winds to the country.
An...
Greek News
Greece Braces for Cold Front Medea
Greece is bracing for the cold front Medea which will bring very low temperatures throughout the country until at least the middle of next week.
The forecast of the National Observatory of Athens weather service meteo.gr on Thursday stated that cold masses...
Greek news
Firefighter Killed as Floods Hit Greece’s Evros
A firefighter was killed on Monday in the region of Evros in northeastern Greece during an operation to rescue dozens of children that were trapped in a school flooded by torrential rains.
The incident occurred as the fire service was...
Greek News
Greece Braces for More Snow, Sub-Zero Temperatures
Greece braces for more snow and sub-zero temperatures starting on Sunday evening, according to the National Observatory of Athens' Meteo service.
The low barometric pressure will arrive from the west, in the third phase of the weather phenomenon "Leandros" that...
Greek news
Storm “Leandros” Brings Snowfall to Greece
The storm "Leandros" is throwing everything it has on Greece, bringing snowfall and bitter cold to the Attica region and the majority of the country.
Right after midnight, snow began to fall throughout Central Greece, mostly in Evrytania, western Fthiotida,...
Greek News
Figs Grow as Winter Heatwave Rages on in Greece
Figs, an iconic summertime fruit in Greece, have begun to grow again near the city of Nafplio in the Peloponnese, flourishing in this winter's record-breaking high temperatures.
With weather so warm that Greeks have been flocking to the beach in...
Greek News
Warmest January in 50 Years Expected in Greece
Greece is forecast to experience some of its highest January temperatures of the last 50 years, the meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens said on Friday.
Temperatures will be as much as 15 degrees Celsius higher than...
Greece
Greece’s Weather Set Records for Rain and Heat in 2020
Last year's weather broke records, not only for high temperatures but also for rainfall levels throughout Greece.
Greece
Woman Hangs on For Dear Life as Floods Sweep Through Crete
A woman survived by hanging on to an electric power pole in Crete on Wednesday as rushing water swept away her car following torrential rains.
The dramatic video was captured near the town of Kartero, in the region of Heraklion,...