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Storm ''Dido'' Expected to Bring Severe Storms and Snow to Greece
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...
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Blanket of Snow Covers Northern Greece (video)
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,...
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Meteorologists Warn Cold Snap Will Bring Snow to Greece
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...
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Greek Authorities Present New Contingency Plans for Natural Disasters
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...
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Satellite Images Reveal Extent of Kineta Flooding
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...
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Death Toll From Thunderstorms Rises to Four in Greece; Parts of Rhodes Flooded
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...
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Two People Killed After Thunderstorms Sweep Across Greece (video)
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...
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Greece Braces for More Bad Weather as ''Geryon'' Weather System Approaches
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''...
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Extensive Rainfall Causes Widespread Damage on Thasos Island
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...
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Floods Cause Extensive Damage in Olympiada, Northern Greece
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...