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| It's interesting to that the coolest waters in the Med are in the corner
| between the Spanish Costa Brava and the Cote d'Azur in the South of
France,
| I would imagine the traditional 'Mistral' is the cause of this, blowing
the
| warmer surface waters south and upwelling the colder waters from below.

The etesians had a similar effect over the northern and central Aegean in
June, when SS temperatures would not exceed 22-23C. The lack of etesians
since June is profound this year, too, like it was last year. SSTs are now
between 24-25C (eastern, central, northern Aegean) and 27C (Ionian sea,
eastern Dodecanese). Last August and autumn had some severe weather and wet
records in schedule for Greece -SSTs had reached 28C.

Yannis, SE Athens
+24.7C, RH 43%