The weather will change over the weekend Sunday through Monday (Jan. 13) with showers and heavy thunderstorms and temperatures dropping to normal for the season.

Specifically, according to the director of the National Weather Service, Thodoros Kolydas, on Sunday and Monday in western, central and northern Greece, rain and thunderstorms are expected locally strong, mainly in the northwest, while snow this weekend will fall in the mountainous mainland and in the semi-mountainous areas of central and northern Greece. In fact, in northern Greece from Sunday night and Monday, snow will also fall in lower altitude areas.

The temperature over the weekend will drop by a total of 8 to 10 degrees in the central and northern regions and by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius in the rest of the region, returning to normal levels for the season.

All the details of his post:

“As we have reported from the previous days, there will be a change in the weather on Sunday and the relevant special bulletin will be issued tomorrow Saturday to provide as complete information as possible on the weather development.

The weather will deteriorate on Sunday and Monday in western, central and northern Greece with showers and thunderstorms, locally heavy, mainly in the northwest, while snow will fall this weekend in the mountainous mainland and in the semi-mountainous areas of central and northern Greece. In northern Greece, mainly from Sunday evening and Monday, snow will also fall in areas with lower altitude. (be very careful in Western Macedonia).

Temperatures over the weekend will drop by a total of 8 to 10 degrees Celsius in the central and northern regions and by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius in the rest of the region, returning there to normal levels for the season. Northeast winds in the Central and North Aegean will reach 7 to 8 Beaufort”.

An overview of weather on Saturday

Clouds are partly cloudy and increasing in most of the country. Showers will occur in the Ionian Sea, the western and northern mainland, the eastern Aegean islands, the Dodecanese and possibly in the Cyclades and Crete. Light snowfall will occur from midday in the mountains of Macedonia and Thrace. Visibility in the morning and evening hours will be locally limited, mainly on the mainland, and fog will form in places.

Winds will be westerly southwesterly 4 to 6 Beaufort and only in the northeast northeasterly north northeasterly with the same intensity.
The temperature will drop slightly in the north, while it will remain high for the season in the central and southern regions. It will reach 13 to 14 degrees Celsius in the north, 15 to 18 degrees Celsius in the rest of the country and 19 to 20 degrees Celsius locally in the south.

Forecast for Sunday (12/1)

The weather forecast for Sunday (Sunday, December 12th) is 12.12-12.12.
Sporadic thunderstorms will occur in the west and from the afternoon onwards on the islands of the northern and eastern Aegean. The phenomena will be locally strong initially in the northwest (North Ionian, Epirus) and gradually in the rest of the Ionian Islands, eastern Thessaly, the Sporades, northern Evia and the islands of the eastern Aegean.

The eastern part of the island, the eastern part of Greece and the eastern part of the eastern Aegean and the eastern Aegean islands.

In western Macedonia particularly heavy snowfall will occur in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas from the morning hours and from midday hours and in areas with lower altitude.

Snowfall from the morning hours will also occur in the mountainous – semi-mountainous areas of central and eastern Macedonia and Thrace, in the mountains of Epirus, Thessaly (especially the western part) and from the afternoon in the central mountains.

Winds will blow in the north north northeast 5 to 6 and from noon in the northern Aegean Sea 7 to 8, while in the rest of the regions it will blow from southern directions 4 to 6 Beaufort. The temperature will drop in northern Greece in the range of 6 to 8 degrees Celsius and 4 to 6 degrees in central Greece.

It will range in the north from minus (-4 four) to 11 degrees Celsius, in the central and southern mainland and the northeastern Aegean islands from 6 to 17 degrees Celsius and in the rest of the island country from 11 to 19 degrees Celsius and locally in the southernmost parts of the Dodecanese up to 20 degrees Celsius.