Locally very hot in Greece
 

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More details about the brand new records will follow in the evening.

Yannis.

Locally very hot in Greece
 

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

Locally very hot in Greece
 

On Jun 25, 9:41 am, Yannis wrote:
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

There is a good sea breeze at Iraklio today and I notice the
dew points are high (22°C). Most places in Greece seem a little
cooler than yesterday. You're better off in The Netherlands, Yannis,
though maybe not just at the moment.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Locally very hot in Greece
 

Tudor Hughes wrote:

There is a good sea breeze at Iraklio today and I notice the
dew points are high (22°C). Most places in Greece seem a little
cooler than yesterday. You're better off in The Netherlands, Yannis,
though maybe not just at the moment.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

It doesn't really make me happy to be missing all this, especially
because tomorrow could be a new record day (like today was, when
Larisa's brand new Saturday record broke again at 44C).
Today was, indeed, forecast to be a bit cooler in most areas. Athens
hasn't made it over 38C. Tomorrow, however... It's the first time I
remember a high resolution model forecast 44C in Athens -keep in mind
the model sees the Athens basin as grass, not a city... Some summer
records could well be in danger.

Greetings from a grey Holland with a very painful in the ears c-g
thunder every couple of days.

Yannis