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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...

A bleak winter beckons for many refugees and migrants trapped in Greece, with thousands left vulnerable to the elements. Although the Greek government has largely succeeded in shifting most people from ad-hoc sites into state-run camps, conditions in the camps...

The National Observatory of Athens has issued a warning that a tropical cyclone is expected to pass north of Crete on Monday, generating winds of over 100 kilometers per hour. This warning comes alongside the recent update on Monday from...

Mid-morning on Saturday the skies of Athens turned grey as a major storm front hit the city and surrounding suburbs. Heavy rain, lightning and thunder continued intermittently for almost two hours as roads and homes flooded. Other cities that felt the brunt...

Greece is about to experience a rare meteorological phenomenon known as Rex Blocking. The last time that it experienced the unusual weather experience was on October 3, 1991, when temperatures fell to 16 degrees centigrade within one or two...

According to police reports, on Friday night officers found a car with a 30-year-old man inside who had been killed by floodwaters in Xylokastro. The man was apparently trying to cross a stream just a few kilometers from this house...

More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of Greece according to the National Meteorological Sevice (EMY) forecast. Western Greece is bracing for more heavy rains and storms to hit on Thursday including the already battered Peloponnese region. Also,...

This Friday marks the first heat wave in Greece for the summer of 2016. Temperatures in northern Greece will reach upwards of 36 degrees celsius on Friday, and the parts of the mainland are expected to see the mercury soar...

The National Weather Service warned that temperatures will drop significantly in the next 24 hours, in Greece, with sleet and wind expected for most of the country and snow forecast for the mountainous and northern regions. Snowfall is even expected...

The municipality of Athens is opening up a room and a municipal gym to shelter homeless people and vulnerable groups from the imminent bad weather, it was announced on Tuesday. The National Weather Service warned that temperatures will drop significantly...