Good evening everyone.

It was a meteorologist's rhetoric question today, what kind of weather we
have not experienced in this little country during the last couple of days
or so. The low over the central parts of the Med / northern Ionian has
brought some unsettled weather throughout Greece; soon, cold air masses
found their way to western Greece as southwesterlies, while southerlies
dominated the eastern part of Greece. The results:

a) heavy snowfalls in Epirus and western Macedonia with snow lying down to
~100 m amsl
b) blizzards with thunder in Epirus, including the city of Ioannina,
yesterday and today
c) sleet and snow grains in the Ionian isles and western low lying
continental Greece
d) heavy thunderstorms and flash floods in eastern Macedonia and Thrace, esp
until yesterday (the part of continental Greece close to Turkey)
e) showery weather in eastern continental Greece with intervals with
splendid weather
f) Foehn effects over northern Crete and a significant transfer of sand from
the Sahara.

Recorded temperatures were by as much as 20?C lower in NW Greece compared to
SE Greece yesterday, while the record holder Rio-Antirrio bridge was struck
by lightning today and has caused some problems in transport between the
Peloponnese and western continental Greece.

And some pictures from last Friday, when Wijke was in Athens:
http://www.e-kairos.com/usw/usw.jpg (for all of you)
http://www.e-kairos.com/usw/wijke.jpg (Wijke)
http://www.e-kairos.com/usw/yanniske.jpg (me)

Yannis, SE Athens
+10.1?C, RH 57%, SLP 1011.7 hPa and rising
from the mild side of the low -for the time being