On a difficult day due to the forest fires in Attica, the main weather feature is strong winds.

Today in Attica, generally clear weather is forecast for today. The winds will be northerly 4 to 6 and locally in the east 7 Beaufort, weakening from the afternoon, while the temperature will reach up to 37 degrees.

In today’s post, Thodoris Kolydas says: “In Attica and especially in the area of the #fire until the early afternoon hours the winds will be stronger, which will gradually weaken towards the evening (after 1800UTC). On Tuesday and Wednesday, the wind field will reach 4-5 and occasionally 5-6, Beaufort, to have a new strengthening on August 15.”

The weather today

The main features of the weather today and until at least Friday, on a difficult day due to forest fires, will be strong winds in the Aegean Sea and high temperatures, according to ERT meteorologist Panagiotis Giannopoulos. A pattern that has characterized the weather this summer, something that we have not seen in the past.

In more detail today Monday 12/8 Monday 12/8 is forecast to be generally clear. Winds will blow from the north, in the Aegean Sea at 6 to 7 Beaufort until the afternoon hours. Then they will weaken. Yesterday they reached up to 8 Beaufort. The temperature will not change significantly. It will reach 36 to 38 degrees Celsius on the mainland and locally in the west 39 degrees Celsius in the eastern Aegean, the Dodecanese, and southern Crete up to 37 degrees Celsius.

In Attica, the weather is generally clear. Winds north 4 to 6 and locally in the east 7 Beaufort, weakening from the afternoon. The temperature will be up to 37 degrees.

In Thessaloniki also generally clear weather is forecast. Winds northwest in the morning 5 Beaufort. The temperature is up to 36 degrees. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the wind will drop a Beaufort, but the thermometer will rise a little more, in the mainland 38 to 40 degrees, the weather will be clear.

On Thursday and Friday, the wind will increase again to 7 Beaufort. , again increasing the risk of rapid fire spreading. The temperature will drop a little in the northeast, but again mainly in the west will reach 40 degrees.