2024-04-25 10:04:01
The National Weather Service has issued a new severe weather advisory, which indicates that severe weather will develop from tomorrow, Friday, starting from the west.
The bad weather will then move east and is expected to cause worsening weather in most of the country from midday on Friday until midday on Saturday (20-04-24) with heavy rain and thunderstorms, accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and localized hail.
The intense phenomena that will start from the west will quickly spread to the central and northern continents, the Sporades, Evia, the Cyclades and later to the eastern Aegean and the Dodecanese. The winds will be strong and will reach 7 and locally 8 Beaufort.
Heavy rain and storms are forecast:
On Friday (19-04-24)
a. From the afternoon hours on the Ionian Islands, Epirus and western Sterea.
b. From late afternoon in Thessaly, eastern Sterea and Peloponnese (mainly in its western parts).
c. In the evening hours, the phenomena will extend further east and will affect areas of central and eastern Macedonia (Pieria prefecture, Thessaloniki prefecture, Halkidiki prefecture as well as the sea-coastal areas of Serres prefecture and Kavala prefecture), eastern Sterea, the Sporades, Evia, the Cyclades and the islands of the eastern Aegean.
d. A gradual weakening of the phenomena is expected in the evening hours in the Ionian and the western continents.
On Saturday (20-04-24)
a. Until the morning hours in Thessaly, the Sporades, areas of central and eastern Macedonia (Pieria prefecture, Thessaloniki prefecture, Halkidiki prefecture as well as the sea-coastal areas of Serres prefecture and Kavala prefecture), the islands of the eastern Aegean and in places eastern Sterea and Evia.
b. From early in the morning until noon in the Dodecanese.