Weather: October begins with rain – A 48-hour “P-type” storm is coming, which areas will be affected

October starts with autumn-like upwind today, October 1st, with section showers and thunderstorms successful cardinal and bluish Greece, according to the HNMS (Hellenic National Meteorological Service). However, connected Thursday and Friday, arsenic meteorologists Giorgos Tsatrafilias, Giannis Kallianos, Klearchos Marousakis, and Theodoros Kolydas posted connected societal media, the state volition look storms, immoderate locally dangerous, with the archetypal snowfall besides making an appearance.

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New tempest beforehand Thursday & Friday

According to Theodoros Kolydas, a caller tempest beforehand is expected Thursday and Friday, with rainfall and thunderstorms crossed overmuch of the country.
“From Wednesday afternoon, a low-pressure strategy volition signifier implicit confederate Italy, gradually moving toward the Ionian Sea. From Thursday morning, it volition impact the Ionian Islands and occidental mainland Greece, moving eastward. Severe upwind volition mostly hap aft midday. Beyond occidental Greece, attraction is besides needed successful the northbound connected Thursday, arsenic good arsenic successful the eastbound Aegean and the Dodecanese connected Friday,” Kolydas said.

Meteorologist Giorgos Tsatrafilias warned that the 48-hour, nationwide, “Π-type” tempest volition bring terrible thunderstorms, gale-force winds, a crisp somesthesia drop, and adjacent snowfall astatine Mount Kaimaktsalan.
“October volition footwear disconnected with beardown storms, almighty winds, falling temperatures, and adjacent snow. The deterioration volition commencement connected Thursday greeting (October 2) from the westbound and dispersed crossed the state done Friday (October 3). Specifically:

• Heavy rains and thunderstorms, strongest successful occidental and bluish Greece and the eastbound Aegean (a upwind signifier known arsenic ‘type Π’).
• Gale-force winds: northerlies successful the Ionian, southerlies successful the confederate Aegean.
• Temperatures dropping by up to 8°C successful cardinal and bluish Greece.
• Light snowfall imaginable Friday greeting successful bluish mountains (around 1,500m), with immoderate snowfall besides expected astatine the Kaimaktsalan skis resort.”

Klearchos Marousakis added that this caller question of atrocious upwind volition intensify into Thursday arsenic cooler aerial masses conscionable the lukewarm waters of the cardinal Mediterranean, fueling the storm. He warned of a noticeable somesthesia driblet and imaginable flooding, with the archetypal snows apt successful bluish mountains.

Giannis Kallianos noted that the storm’s main features volition beryllium near-nationwide rainfall, terrible thunderstorms, beardown winds astatine sea, little temperatures successful western, central, and bluish regions, and snowfall successful the mountains of northwestern Greece, adjacent from 1,200–1,300 meters elevation.

Today’s forecast (October 1)

• Mainland, Ionian, North Aegean: Cloudy with section showers and thunderstorms.
• Crete: Partly cloudy with a accidental of little showers successful the afternoon.
• Rest of Aegean: Mostly just with a fewer passing clouds.

Temperatures:

• Western Macedonia: 7–19°C
• Rest of Macedonia & Thrace: 11–24°C
• Thessaly: 14–24°C
• Epirus: 10–24°C
• Central Greece: 12–24°C
• Peloponnese: 9–27°C
• Ionian Islands: 14–24°C
• North & East Aegean: 14–24°C
• Cyclades: 16–25°C
• Dodecanese: 21–26°C
• Crete: 12–25°C

Winds:

• Aegean: Northerly, 3–5 Beaufort.
• Ionian: Variable up to 3 Beaufort, turning southerly 2–4 Beaufort successful the afternoon.

Athens: Cloudy, accidental of airy section showers. 18–24°C, winds adaptable up to 3 Beaufort.
Thessaloniki: Cloudy with light, little showers. 16–20°C, winds adaptable up to 3 Beaufort.

Thursday, October 2

• Rain and scattered thunderstorms starting successful the Ionian, Epirus, occidental Macedonia, occidental Sterea, and occidental Peloponnese, spreading rapidly eastward. By afternoon, storms volition scope the Cyclades and occidental Crete.
• Strong phenomena expected successful respective regions.
• Winds: South-southeast 4–6 Beaufort successful the west, shifting northwest aboriginal (up to 7 Beaufort successful the bluish Ionian). East: northwest 3–4 Beaufort, aboriginal southerly 4–6, and successful the northbound Aegean easterly 5–6 Beaufort.
• Temperatures falling nationwide: 16–18°C max successful the north, 20–21°C elsewhere, warmer lone successful the Aegean islands (24–26°C).

Friday, October 3

• Widespread rainfall and thunderstorms, strongest successful central/eastern Macedonia, Thrace, eastbound Aegean islands, and Dodecanese.
• Snowfall successful bluish mountains.
• Winds: Northwest 5–6 Beaufort (up to 7 successful the Ionian), south-southwest 5–6 Beaufort successful the east, locally beardown successful the northbound Aegean.
• Temperatures dropping further.

Saturday, October 4

• Local clouds with occasional showers, chiefly southbound and eastbound Aegean.
• Winds: West/northwest 3–5 Beaufort.
• Slight somesthesia emergence successful cardinal and bluish Greece.

Sunday, October 5

• Clouds expanding successful the westbound with showers and isolated storms.
• Eastern Aegean: passing clouds.
• Winds: Southwest 3–5 Beaufort, up to 6 Beaufort astatine sea.
• Temperatures rising, particularly successful cardinal and bluish regions.