Weather: Storm to hit Attica in the coming hours – Front currently over Southern Peloponnese, 112 Alert sent to Laconia in the morning

Starting today, a important displacement successful upwind is expected for 2 days. Meteorologists are informing astir a “Pi-type” storm, prompting the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (EMY) to contented an Emergency Severe Weather Bulletin, which was updated overnight.

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— Theodoros Kolydas (@KolydasT) October 1, 2025

Meteorologist Thodoris Kolydas noted:

“The cardinal characteristics of the tempest stay successful the latest exemplary runs: little but aggravated rainfall and eastward movement.”

EMY Forecast for Thursday (October 2, 2025) and Friday (October 3, 2025)Key Features:

• Heavy rain, thunderstorms, localized hail.
• Affects most of Greece.
• Phenomena volition beryllium especially intense successful respective regions.

Thursday, October 2:

• Until aboriginal afternoon: Ionian Islands.
• Early greeting to afternoon: Epirus, Western Macedonia, Western Central Greece, Western & Southern Peloponnese.
• Late greeting onward: Central Macedonia, Thessaly (until evening), Central and Eastern Central Greece (including Attica), remaining Peloponnese, Western Crete, Euboea, Sporades.
• Evening onward: Eastern Aegean Islands, Eastern Macedonia.
• Late night: Thrace.

Friday, October 3:

• Early greeting to afternoon: Dodecanese.
• Until midday: Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, Eastern Aegean Islands.
• Until greeting hours: Central Macedonia.

Areas of Increased Risk:

• Thursday (early): Ionian Islands (especially Zakynthos, Kefalonia), Western/Southern Peloponnese.
• Thursday evening – Friday morning: Central Macedonia.
• Friday until midday: Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, Eastern Aegean Islands.
• Friday greeting to afternoon: Dodecanese.

112 Emergency Alerts Sent:

• To Laconia residents: Warning of dense rainfall and thunderstorms from aboriginal greeting to precocious day connected Thursday, Oct. 2.
• Wednesday night: Alerts sent to Ionian Islands, Achaia, Ilia, Messinia.

Dangerous Weather Due to Warm Seas

Meteorologist Giorgos Tsatrafilias described the tempest arsenic “deceptive and dangerous” owed to lukewarm oversea temperatures, which fuel the tempest system.

Key points:

• Thursday: Intense rainfall and thunderstorms commencement aboriginal successful occidental regions, past dispersed northward.
• Friday: Northern Greece, Eastern Aegean, Dodecanese.
• Severe winds successful the Ionian and South Aegean.
• Temperature drop of up to 8°C, and immoderate snowfall astatine elevations astir 1,300m Thursday night.
• Attica (Athens region): Strong thunderstorm expected Thursday midday.

Scientific Explanation of Warm-Sea Effect connected Storms:

• Warm water → More evaporation → More latent heat → Stronger storms.
• Surface heating changes unit organisation → alters storm trajectory.

Risk Assessment Committee & Government Readiness

The Risk Assessment Committee, convened by the Civil Protection General Secretary Nikos Papaefstathiou, warned that immoderate regions are astatine heightened risk of terrible weather:

• Thursday: Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Achaia, Ilia, Messinia, Laconia, Central Macedonia.
• Friday: Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, Eastern Aegean, Dodecanese.

Authorities are connected high operational alert, including section governments, police, and exigency services.

Civil Protection Guidelines for Citizens

The General Secretariat for Civil Protection urges citizens to instrumentality self-protection measures:

Before/During the Storm:

• Secure objects that could go projectiles.
• Ensure drains/gutters are clear.
• Avoid walking oregon driving crossed rivers, streams, oregon flooded roads.
• Postpone outdoor activities and enactment distant from coastal areas.
• Seek structure during hailstorms — hail tin injure humans and animals.
• Avoid lasting nether trees, signs, balconies, oregon thing that whitethorn fall.
• Follow authoritative instructions (e.g. constabulary alerts).

If Lightning Activity Is Present:

At home:

• Unplug electrical appliances.
• Avoid touching plumbing (sinks, pipes).

In a car:

• Pull implicit distant from trees.
• Stay inside, windows closed, hazard lights on.
• Avoid driving done floodwaters.

Outdoors:

• Find structure (not nether gangly trees successful unfastened areas).
• Avoid metallic objects.
• Move distant from water.
• If you consciousness hairsbreadth lasting connected extremity (lightning imminent), crouch debased with feet together.

Today’s Weather (Thursday, October 2)

• Rain and storms successful the Ionian and mainland, expanding to eastbound Macedonia, Thrace, Northern Aegean, Cyclades, and Crete by afternoon.
• Severe in: Ionian, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Eastern Central Greece, Central/Eastern Macedonia, Northern Aegean, Crete.
• Hail possible successful southbound mainland and Aegean.
• Snowfall successful precocious mountains of northwest Greece by night.
• Increased dust successful confederate and eastbound regions.

Temperature Ranges:

• Western Macedonia: 3–13°C
• Other Macedonia: 12–19°C
• Thrace: 10–22°C
• Thessaly: 10–19°C
• Epirus: 10–21°C
• Central Greece: 13–20°C
• Peloponnese: 13–23°C
• Ionian Islands: 13–21°C
• North/East Aegean: 13–24°C
• Cyclades: 13–21°C
• Dodecanese: 19–26°C
• Crete: 11–29°C

Winds:

• North Aegean: NE winds 3–6 Beaufort.
• Central/South Aegean: Initially N winds, becoming southerly 4–6 Beaufort by afternoon.
• Ionian Sea: S winds 4–6 Beaufort, aboriginal turning NW 5–7 Beaufort.

Regional Forecasts:

Attica (Athens):

• Rain & thunderstorms, perchance terrible by midday.
• Winds: Initially N up to 3 Beaufort, turning S 2–4 Beaufort.
• Temp: 19–22°C

Thessaloniki:

• Rain, perchance thunderstorms.
• Winds: N 2–4 Beaufort.
• Temp: 13–16°C

Friday, October 3:

• Rain & storms proceed crossed overmuch of Greece.
• Especially aggravated aboriginal successful Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, Eastern Aegean, Dodecanese.
• Some eastern/southern regions whitethorn spot impermanent improvements.
• Snow successful bluish upland areas.
• Winds: Mostly W/NW, SE winds successful eastbound regions, 4–7 Beaufort.
• Temp drop:
• Macedonia: Max 15–17°C
• Rest of mainland/Ionian/North Aegean: 19–22°C
• Dodecanese, Cyclades, Crete: up to 25°C

Saturday, October 4:

• Unsettled weather with section rainfall successful central/southern regions and eastbound Aegean.
• Winds: Westerlies 3–5, locally 6 Beaufort successful seas.
• Temperature: Slight summation successful western/northern regions.

Sunday, October 5:

• Mostly wide skies, with little cloudiness.
• Small accidental of airy rainfall successful Crete.
• Visibility locally reduced successful the morning.
• Winds: Variable 3–4 Beaufort; successful Dodecanese, NW 4–6 Beaufort.
• Temperature: Slight emergence crossed astir areas.