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According to the latest meteorological forecasts, the new weather front called "Dido" is expected to begin affecting the western and southern regions of Greece starting on Monday evening. The new front is expected to bring rainfall and severe storms as...

A cold front which is sweeping Greece is bringing heavy snow to many northern parts of the country. Snow, accompanied by freezing northerly winds, fell overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday morning in towns in the regions of Macedonia and Thrace,...

A cold front which is currently poised over the northern parts of the Balkan Peninsula is moving south and will cross over Greece from Tuesday night until the early hours of Thursday, according to the Athens National Observatory's Meteo...

The director of Greece's General Secretariat for Civil Protection, Phoebos Theodorou, presented two new comprehensive government plans for addressing floods and wildfires in the country on Monday. The new contingency plans have the code names ''Dardanus'' and ''Iolaus.'' The presentation of the...

Satellite images of Kineta, the town in Attica which has suffered so greatly from extensive flooding since Monday, depict the extent of the catastrophe that struck the area. The images come from the European Sentinel-2 satellite, part of the European Union's...

Two more people have died in Greece as severe thunderstorms moved to the eastern Aegean Sea on Monday evening, bringing the death toll to four. On Rhodes, an elderly woman was found dead after her basement room flooded, and on...

The Greek Coast Guard said on Monday that two people had been killed after their moored sailboat sank in the town of Antirio, western Greece, as a result of the severe weather. The two unfortunate individuals were identified on Monday...

The severe weather front dubbed "Geryon", is expected to affect Greece with heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and particularly strong southerly winds from Sunday, November 24 to Tuesday, November 26. According to a warning issued by the National Observatory of Athens' ''Meteo''...

The Greek island of Thasos in the North Aegean Sea has been suffering from extensive damage since Friday, due to the enormous amount of rainwater that has fallen there in a short period of time. A total of six areas...

The village of Olympiada in the regional unit of Halkidiki in Central Macedonia, Greece suffered severe flooding on Friday due to the extensive amounts of rainfall which have fallen continually in the region over the last several hours. The area's...