Good evening all.

Much of the UK has reported higher temperature maxima for Friday compared to
Greece, as the northeasterlies have brought temperatures back to normal
here, whereas the continental flow over the UK has been quite warm indeed.

The unorthodox movement of the cold pool clockwise, westwards away from the
Balkans caused some scattered snowfalls over the northwestern highlands of
the country yesterday, while Saturday should see a new northeasterly strong
breeze here, with a few scattered light rainfalls over the eastern and
southern wind prone areas.

The interesting news for us lies in the movement of a new cold pool
southwards at the eastern 'banks' of the anticyclone, that is forecast to
bring a nice cold spell, accompanied by a sharp decrease in temperature as
of Sunday night, widespread night time frost in the north of the country and
light to moderate snowfalls affecting much of the eastern continental wind
prone areas (above the altitude of 550-700m around the Athens hills and
mountains, down to lower altitudes just outside Athens, above ~1500m in
Crete).

This is a typical example showing that the UK usually has relatively mild
weather when it comes to wintry weather in central Greece. Other examples:
January 2002:
http://217.160.130.220/wz/pics/archi...0120020105.gif
February 1992:
http://217.160.130.220/wz/pics/archi...0119920223.gif
etc

Yannis, SE Athens
+12.7C, RH 68%, SLP 1027.3 hPa
November so far: http://www.e-kairos.gr/everyday/november03.html