The mercury will remain in the red today, Wednesday, May 22, 2024, since the temperature is expected to reach 35 degrees Celsius again locally, while there will be a gradual retreat of African dust.
According to Klearchos Marousakis, a northwest wind from the west is entering today to improve the situation first in the west and north and from tomorrow in the rest of the regions.
“Increased temperatures are expected today in Thessaly, Boeotia, eastern southeastern Peloponnese, inland parts of Crete and the eastern southeastern Aegean. There will limit the action of the heat wave and from Thursday we now go to good clarity of the atmosphere, “says the Open meteorologist in his forecast.
Marousakis continued, saying that instability is coming, however, first in northern northeastern Greece and at the weekend, a “cold lake” will give instability in more generalized parts of our country.
Over the weekend the main feature of the weather will be instability, meaning showers and local thunderstorms, particularly on the mainland, with the mercury approaching more normal seasonal temperatures.
As EMY director Thodoris Kolydas explained in a post, “this weather is due to a detached low accompanied by a cold mass in the upper atmosphere. The low’s air masses will contrast with warmer and wetter air masses in the lower layers.
This contrast, and the dynamics of the low, will cause vertical clouds (Cu, CB) and thunderstorms will occur, especially during the warm daytime hours on the continents.”
He even posted a video describing the formation of the “cold lake” weather.
The weather today
The South Aegean and Crete will see cloudy skies with localised showers until midday. In the rest of the country, generally clear weather is expected with occasional local clouds which will increase at noon and in the afternoon in the central and northern mainland so there is a possibility of occasional local showers in the northern mainland. Visibility will be locally limited until the morning. Dust concentrations in the atmosphere will be increased, mainly in the central and southern regions.
The temperature in Western Macedonia will range from 12 to 27 degrees Celsius, in the rest of Macedonia and Thrace from 12 to 30, in Epirus from 14 to 26, in Thessaly from 15 to 32, in Sterea and Peloponnese from 15 to 31, in the Ionian islands from 15 to 26, in the North and East Aegean islands from 15 to 31, in the Cyclades from 16 to 29, in the Dodecanese from 18 to 28 and in Crete from 20 to 33 degrees Celsius.
Winds in the Central and North Aegean Sea will blow from variable directions from 2 to 4 Beaufort. In the South Aegean, winds will initially blow from variable directions from 2 to 4 Beaufort but from noon onwards they will become westerly from 3 to 5 Beaufort.
In the Ionian Sea the winds will initially blow from variable directions up to 3 Beaufort but from the morning onwards they will become northerly 2 to 4 Beaufort.
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY 23-05-2024
In the northeast a few clouds, partly cloudy, with local showers and isolated thunderstorms. Improvement is forecast in the afternoon hours in the northeastern Aegean and in the evening hours in the northeastern mainland.
In the rest of the country, generally clear weather with occasional clouds in the central and northern continental areas in the midday and afternoon hours, when local rainfall is likely in the mountains.
Winds will blow west northwest 4 to 6 Beaufort and in the southern seas locally up to 7 Beaufort.
The temperature will drop. In the west, the northern mainland and the island country it will reach 25 to 28 degrees and in the eastern mainland 29 to 32 degrees.
FORECAST FOR FRIDAY 24-05-2024
Generally clear weather with occasional clouds in the midday and afternoon hours mainly in the northern mainland, when there will be local showers and in the northeast mainly in the mountains isolated thunderstorms.
Winds will blow north-northwest 4 to 6 Beaufort and in the Aegean Sea 6 and locally in the southeast 7 Beaufort.
The temperature will not change significantly.
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FORECAST FOR SATURDAY 25-05-2024
Initially generally clear weather. From the midday hours on the mainland clouds will develop and there will be local showers or rain mainly in the central and northern regions. From the afternoon and from the west, clouds will gradually increase and there will be local showers in the Ionian, western and central continents and isolated thunderstorms mainly in the mountains.
Winds will blow from the north 3 to 5, in the Aegean 5 to 6 and locally in the south 7 Beaufort.
The temperature will not change significantly.
FORECAST FOR SUNDAY 26-05-2024
Generally unsettled weather with showers and isolated thunderstorms mainly in the west and central regions. In the rest of the regions, increasing clouds at times with a few light showers in western Crete and the Cyclades.
Winds will blow from northerly directions 3 to 5, in the Aegean 5 to 6 and locally 7 Beaufort.
Temperatures will drop slightly in the north and central regions.
