Hallo, everyone.

The highest temperature recorded on Friday was +40.8C in the town of Lamia
in eastern continental Greece. Larisa was close with +40.0C while no
Athenian station reported temperatures over +38C (I only recorded +34.6C).
The heat was quite bearable with low humidity indices. The sea breeze effect
was once again obvious, as inland temperature maxima were as much as 7C
lower compared to the coastal areas of Athens:
http://users.ntua.gr/jorgalan/jpg/010705highs.jpg

Once again, the Aegean isles were notably cooler: Rhodes never exceeded
+28.8C while people in Limnos were feeling quite comfortable with +29.2C in
the early afternoon hours.

The heat is gradually giving way to fresher air masses in the north and the
west of the country, while the south and east should see yet another hot
day. After Saturday's localised showers and thunderstorms in the north of
the country, much of Greece should experience some very heavy downpours of
rain accompanied by hail, thunder and, maybe, some tornadic activity or
waterspouts on Sunday.

Yannis, SE Athens

Yannis wrote in message ...
: ... The sea breeze effect
:was once again obvious, as *inland* temperature maxima were as much as 7C
:*lower* compared to the coastal areas of Athens:
:http://users.ntua.gr/jorgalan/jpg/010705highs.jpg

... inland ... HIGHER ... ?

Colin Youngs
Brussels

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...
Yannis wrote in message ...
: ... The sea breeze effect
:was once again obvious, as *inland* temperature maxima were as much as 7C
:*lower* compared to the coastal areas of Athens:
:http://users.ntua.gr/jorgalan/jpg/010705highs.jpg

... inland ... HIGHER ... ?

Ofcourse, Colin! Sorry about that.

Yannis

"Yannis" wrote in message


The heat is gradually giving way to fresher air masses in the north and the
west of the country, while the south and east should see yet another hot
day. After Saturday's localised showers and thunderstorms in the north of
the country, much of Greece should experience some very heavy downpours of
rain accompanied by hail, thunder and, maybe, some tornadic activity or
waterspouts on Sunday.

Is this in keeping with how things aught to be at this time of the year?


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Is this in keeping with how things aught to be at this time of the year?

Yes, Michael. Warm or hot spells in summer are often accompanied by an
unsettled spell:
the end of a hot spell means that fresher air masses need to come in
(essentially from the north). This means that there needs to be a low in the
east or the southeast of us (essentially the seasonal eastern mediterranean
low) that is sometimes locally triggered to deepen by the pass of a trough
from our north.

Yannis, SE Athens