[Mesogeiakos]

AT LAST RAIN in Athens !!

The ex airport had 19mm last night,Thisio 6.8mm and Elefsina had the lowest precipitation in Athens with a mere 3mm...it was a stormy night for much of central south Athens!!

In fact Elefsina has a mere 14mm total for the past 101 days...

[Mesogeiakos]

Ierapetra in Greece according to HNMS has recorded yesterday 41.0C which is Europe's highest recorded temperature officially so far in 2010

[Mesogeiakos]

Just to let you know that last week northern Athens was hit by one of the most historic thunderstorms for June. Kifisia recorded an amazing 50mm overnight which is a record for Athens in June and has been the highest precip ever recorded in metropolitan Athens from 1897. The average precip for Athens in June is between 5mm-9mm!

We actually had damages from thunders in buildings and electricity points.It was an amazing night ...a first for Athens during the summer

[Mesogeiakos]

Greece's highs yesterday according to HNMS on pretty much a typical summer day (apart from the cloudy weather)

Leonidio 36.6
Athens 36.2
Agrinio 35.8

Greece has been having a very unstable weather and almost every afternoon we see cloudy weather during the warmest hours of the day and sometimes rain or thunderstorms...this has been going on for some time now and is very strange for Athens

[Mesogeiakos]

An interesting find regarding the minimum summer temperatures for Athens.

I am not really sure if I have mentioned this in the past or not but Pireus which is Athens' port has been giving consistently the highest minimum temperatures in the summer in Greece and probably in Europe!

While checking the data for Pireus from HNMS I made an astonishing discovery...The absolute minimum temperature for Pireus in July and August according to HNMS available data is a remarkable 20.0C for both months!! These were recorded on the 1/7/1969 for July and 16/8/1968 for August...

Eilat in the Red Sea has an absolute minimum for July 20.0C as well and 20.4C for August according to Israeli authorities!This is pretty amazing!!

[thunder god]

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Mesogeiakos - 6/7/2010 06:25

Greece's highs yesterday according to HNMS on pretty much a typical summer day (apart from the cloudy weather)

Leonidio 36.6
Athens 36.2
Agrinio 35.8

Greece has been having a very unstable weather and almost every afternoon we see cloudy weather during the warmest hours of the day and sometimes rain or thunderstorms...this has been going on for some time now and is very strange for Athens

This may be a good thing,it will help to prevent bush fires.

[Mesogeiakos]

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thunder god - 6/7/2010 22:05

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Mesogeiakos - 6/7/2010 06:25

Greece's highs yesterday according to HNMS on pretty much a typical summer day (apart from the cloudy weather)

Leonidio 36.6
Athens 36.2
Agrinio 35.8

Greece has been having a very unstable weather and almost every afternoon we see cloudy weather during the warmest hours of the day and sometimes rain or thunderstorms...this has been going on for some time now and is very strange for Athens

This may be a good thing,it will help to prevent bush fires.

yes it will.In fact in some parts of Athens you can still see fresh green grass which is very very very strange for Athens at this time of the year..trust me!!

[Mesogeiakos]

Greece's maxs yesterday according to HNMS

36.0 Tympaki
35.1 Sofades
35.0 Agrinio
34.8 Athens

The highest minimum in Greece again in Athens(Piraeus) with 26.4...It is worth noting that the minimum temperature has not dropped below 20.0C in Piraeus from the 26th of May according to HNMS!! The south west parts of coastal Attica have a unique dynamic when it comes to summer minimums!!!Unknown why

[Solas]

Hi Mesogeiakos.

I'm just curious, what’s the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in Greece (and where)?

[Mesogeiakos]

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Solas - 7/7/2010 17:50

Hi Mesogeiakos.

I'm just curious, what’s the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in Greece (and where)?

Hi Solas

According to the National Observatory of Athens the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in Greece in a period of 24hours was in Paleochora SW Crete with an amazing 35.8C on the 27th of June 2007!! I think this is also a European record however I am not sure and if someone could help I would be most grateful.

A very strong candidate for the European record of highest minimum temperature is also North Sicily again in June 2007...However from reports in an Italian forum it seems temperatures dropped around 32.0C but with no actual data

http://penteli.meteo...ora/2007-06.txt

[Lightning Hunter]

I was on holiday on Paxos (near Corfu) in the summer of 2003 and I remember eating out in a restaurant at 11p.m., with the temperature reading on a mercury thermometer on the wall next to the dock of 33°C. Probably the warmest nights I've experienced, but I'd got used to it after 3-4 days.

[Mesogeiakos]

A relevant article about the 36C minimum of Paleochora

I used google translate from Greek to English

http://translate.goo...tml&sl=el&tl=en

[Mesogeiakos]

Greece's maxs yesterday according to HNMS

Leonidio 36.2
Tympaki 35.8
Athens (N.Filadelfia and Hellenikon) and Agrinio 35.4
Samos 34.8
Athens(Elefsina) 34.6


Highest minimums 27.0 Paleochora,26.4 Psara and 26.2 in Athens (Piraeus)

[Mesogeiakos]

Greece yesterday recorded a max of 32.6 in Lamia and Athens a mere 31.3 in Thiseion...
Today AGAIN cloudy in Athens and we have a mere 30.0C right now....While 33 years ago on the same day we had 48.0C marking Europe's official record!!!

[Mesogeiakos]

A mere 32.9 yesterday for Athens Thiseion and 34.2 Greece's max at Agrinion

Highest minimum in the country as always in the coasts of SW Attica with 24.2 in Piraeus

[Mesogeiakos]

YET AGAIN CLOUDY IN ATHENS...OMG !!!34.1 max today in Athens.Thiseion

It is really getting on my nerves...THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE SUMMER HERE.I MEAN NEVER!!!

[Skizzo]

But at least it's cloudy and hot haha :)

I'd love to go to Greece someday, so beautiful in the pics

[Mesogeiakos]

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Skizzo - 11/7/2010 18:44

But at least it's cloudy and hot haha :)

I'd love to go to Greece someday, so beautiful in the pics

Well just the islands to be honest are beautiful....Athens is awful(apart from the historic centre ,Acropolis,the Museum and few other bits)...the rest is crap [hehe]

The most awful thing in the summer especially for Athens is the damn minimums...it takes a miracle for them to drop below 21C-23C...It is really unconfortable sleeping in the night here..Trust me

[Skizzo]

Yeah I bet. When we get minimums here of 22-27ºC, I sweat like a pig. Thank god they aren't as common here, at least in my city.

[Mesogeiakos]

Wow!! Some Southern European Solidarity to Spain NOW from Greece!!

I can hear practically all my neighbours cheering for Spain's goal!!!

No hard feelings for Euro 2004 Skizzo ha??hehehhee