Dear all,

some of the temperature maxima for the last couple of days in Greece:

Elefsina/AP: +45.8C (a new June record for the whole country. Previous
was +45.7C in the city of Irakleio, Crete, on 29/6/1916)
Kalamata/AP: +45.0C (previous record was +41.8C on 25/6/1982)
Palaeochora: +44.3C
Larisa/AP: +43.4C (previous record was +42.2C on 25/6/1982)
Tatoi/Athens: +43.4C (previous record was +42.0C on 25/6/1982)
Acharnae/Athens: +43.3C
Tanagra/AP: +43.2C (previous record was +42.4C on 26/6/1982)
Chania/TUC: +43.1C
Lamia: +42.6C (previous record was +42.3C on 25/6/1982)
Kythera/AP: +41.6C
Trikala: +42.4C (previous record was +40.2C on 25/6/1982)
Thermi/Thessaloniki: +41.9C
Athens/AP: +40.5C
Tripolis/AP: +40.4C
Irakleio/AP: +39.4C
Kastelli: +39.4C
Serres: +39.4C
Kastoria/AP: +39.0C
Kozani: +38.2C
Thessaloniki/AP: +38.0C
Alexandroupolis/AP: +37.8C
Skyros/AP: +36.2C
Corfu/AP: +34.8C
Argostoli: +34.5C
Florina: +32.2C

Temperatures were very variable in Crete and there were reports of
very frequent switches between hot air from inland and a cool sea
breeze. People travelling along the coast yesterday reported totally
different conditions within a few hundred metres (ie from 42C down to
30C and then up to 40C again in a few seconds). This can be viewed at
the station of Palaeochora, where temperatures were really independent
of time of day.

Today's expected to be slightly cooler in Athens -but still hot.
Tomorrow's forecast to be the hottest day in downtown Athens and other
parts of continental Greece. Could be a day of new records in areas
that didn't get the chance to reset their own ones yesterday.

Yannis, Bilthoven/NL