View Single Post
  #3   Report Post  
Old August 20th 06, 12:28 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Yannis Yannis is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by Weather-Banter: Dec 2005
Posts: 190
Default Greek temperature maxima on Friday

Ο "Tudor Hughes" έγραψε στο μήνυμα
ps.com...
I notice that the diurnal range in Athens is quite small,
with a min of 28 and max of 34. Maybe that's not so bad, with the
strong breeze and reasonably low dewpoint. I only found one place in
Greece with 38 today, Kalamata.


Tudor, temperature minima can't go all that low within the basin of Athens,
with all this breezy weather (and cement!) The difference among stations is
very notable depending on their position (population density and overnight
wind force). Tonight is not as breezy and overnight temperatures are already
a bit lower than those of yesterday.

I see more official stations online having reported temperature maxima over
38C: Eleusis made it to +39C
(http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LGEL.html) and some of the NTUA
stations did equally "well"
(http://meteonet.chi.civil.ntua.gr/en/divs.html): Acharnes (+38.5C),
Zografou (+38.5C), Ano Liosia (+38.6C), Agios Kosmas (+39.2C), Psytalleia
(+38.5C), Ilioupoli (+39.1C). The suburbs to the northeast and wind prone
areas outside the basin (ie Athens International Airport), but still within
the prefecture of Attica, never made it over +34C.

Yannis, SE Athens
+29.8C, RH 28%, SLP 1015.4 hPa