Weather update: Cold air mass brings snow to low altitudes – Which areas will be covered in snow

The scenery of summer changes connected Sunday, arsenic acold wide is expected to deed our state bringing a accelerated driblet successful temperature, showers, and snowfall successful the mountains. The alteration successful upwind is expected to bring snowfall adjacent astatine little elevations.

According to meteorologist Klearchos Marousakis, the upwind volition go wintry with a polar acold wide arriving successful our state with snowfall successful the mountains of the cardinal and bluish portion of the country, possibly adjacent little successful Macedonia, Thrace, and Thessaly. He reassured america astir a mean wintertime signifier and that we needed it to provender the h2o array arsenic well.

Kolydas: Snow volition autumn astatine little elevations

In statement with the meteorologists’ wide appraisal of the upwind that from Sunday determination volition beryllium snowfall successful areas of bluish Greece, the manager of EMY, Thodoris Kolydas, appears to beryllium successful agreement.

According to his station connected X “the criteria of the precocious ambiance (Temperatures astatine 500 and 850 hPa) are met – adjacent if marginally – and this volition effect successful galore areas to snowfall adjacent astatine little altitudes.”

However, regarding forecasts for circumstantial areas, specified arsenic Thessaloniki, Kolydas asks “to hold different 2 days.”

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For his part, Giorgos Tsatrafyllias, successful a post, mentions the cities that person a precocious accidental of snowfall from Sunday nighttime to Monday afternoon.

The cities are:

Veroia
Edessa
Kavala
Komotini
Kilkis
Thessaloniki
Group of Western Macedonia: (Kastoria, Kozani, Grevena, Grevena, Florina).

As Giannis Kallianos said connected Mega’s main newscast, a gradual deterioration of the upwind is expected from Sunday with rain, thunderstorms, beardown northbound winds up to 6-8 Beaufort, snowfall, and a driblet successful somesthesia of 6 to 8 degrees Celsius.

In fact, successful areas of Western Macedonia, the mercury volition dip up to 14 degrees Celsius. On Monday (13/1) and Tuesday (14/1) snowfall volition autumn – according to the forecast – successful lowland areas successful Macedonia, Thrace, and Thessaly, but besides ample cities of Western Macedonia, specified arsenic Florina, Kastoria, Ptolemaida, Kozani, Grevena, arsenic good arsenic successful occidental parts of the prefecture of Thessaloniki and Kilkis. It is not excluded that it volition snowfall successful Thessaloniki or, if it does not snow, it volition astir apt sleet.

The municipalities of Thessaloniki are connected alert for imaginable snow

The municipalities of the prefecture of Thessaloniki are connected alert for the anticipation of snow, adjacent successful the city, adjacent Sunday, according to the National Meteorological Service’s forecasts truthful far.

With 21 snowfall removal machines and a capable proviso of 2,000 tons of salt, the municipality of Pylaia-Hortiatis is connected alert for immoderate eventuality, arsenic Hortiatis is the archetypal spot to “whitewash” successful the city. In lawsuit the forecasts travel true, an SMS volition beryllium sent to the citizens, informing them of the extortion measures and the municipal areas that volition stay unfastened for the nationalist arsenic portion of the alert.

The cardinal municipality’s machinery is ready, arsenic is the brackish conscionable successful case, and if necessary, based connected however the upwind develops, determination volition beryllium modifications to the greenish and bluish bin postulation schedules.

The upwind today

Patchy clouds are expected crossed the country. In Western Greece, the East Aegean islands, and the Dodecanese, clouds volition beryllium thicker and a fewer airy section showers volition occur. At nighttime and aboriginal successful the morning, visibility successful galore areas volition beryllium constricted and section fog volition form.

The somesthesia volition scope successful Western Macedonia from -2 to 14 degrees Celsius, successful the remainder of bluish Greece from 2 to 15-16 degrees Celsius, successful Thessaly from 2 to 16-18 degrees Celsius, successful Epirus from 4 to 17-18 degrees Celsius, successful the remainder of the mainland from 7 to 17-19 degrees Celsius, successful the Ionian Islands from 11 to 17 degrees Celsius and successful the Aegean Islands and Crete from 9 to 17-19 degrees Celsius.

In the Central, Eastern, and Northern Aegean Sea, southwestern winds volition stroke astatine 4-5 Beaufort, portion successful the Southern Aegean Sea, westerly winds volition prevail with the aforesaid intensity. In the Ionian Sea, the winds volition stroke southwest astatine 4-5 Beaufort, but volition gradually displacement to westerly winds with the aforesaid intensity.

In Attica, we expect occasionally accrued clouds. At nighttime and aboriginal successful the greeting visibility volition beryllium locally limited. Winds volition stroke from westerly directions with intensities of 3-4 Beaufort. The somesthesia volition scope from 11 to 17 degrees Celsius.

In Thessaloniki, we expect partially cloudy conditions. At nighttime and aboriginal successful the greeting the visibility volition beryllium limited. Winds volition stroke from assorted directions with intensities of 2-3 Beaufort. The somesthesia volition scope from 7 to 14 degrees Celsius.

The upwind connected Saturday 11-01-2025

Clouds, partially cloudy and partially cloudy each implicit the country. Rains volition hap successful western, bluish Greece, eastbound and confederate Aegean. Visibility successful the greeting hours volition beryllium locally limited.

Winds volition stroke successful the westbound and southbound from westerly directions 4 to 6 Beaufort and successful the remainder of the portion northeastern 3 to 4 Beaufort and from the day successful the northeast 5 to 6 Beaufort.

The somesthesia volition driblet successful the northbound portion it volition stay precocious for the play successful the cardinal and confederate regions.

The upwind connected Sunday 12-01-2025

Increasing clouds and showers crossed astir of the country. Sporadic thunderstorms volition hap chiefly successful the westbound and from the evening successful the northeastern Aegean Sea wherever the phenomena are apt to beryllium beardown successful places. Snowfall volition hap successful occidental Macedonia, successful the mountains of the remainder of the bluish portion of the country, and from the evening successful the bluish semi-mountains and successful the cardinal mountains.

Winds volition stroke successful the northbound northeast 5 to 6 Beaufort and from noon successful the bluish Aegean Sea 7 to 8 Beaufort and successful the remainder from confederate directions 4 to 6 Beaufort.

The somesthesia volition driblet successful bluish and cardinal Greece successful the scope of 4 to 5 degrees Celsius.

The upwind connected Monday 13-01-2025

Increased clouds with showers each implicit the country. Sporadic thunderstorms volition hap successful the Ionian Sea, occasionally successful the eastbound mainland and the northeastern Aegean. Snowfall volition hap successful the mountains of the mainland and successful the bluish highlands.

Winds volition stroke successful the westbound and the southbound south-southeast 5 to 7 Beaufort, portion successful the eastbound and the northbound north-northeast 6 to 8 Beaufort.

The somesthesia volition driblet further.

The upwind connected Tuesday 14-01-2025

In the westbound a fewer clouds successful the morning, partially cloudy. In the remainder of the state cloudy with section showers and successful the confederate seas isolated thunderstorms, portion snowfall volition hap successful the greeting hours successful the mountains of the eastbound mainland and successful the bluish highlands. Gradual betterment is expected from midday.

The winds volition stroke eastbound northeast 4 to 6 Beaufort and successful the oversea locally 7 to 8 Beaufort.

The somesthesia successful the cardinal and bluish regions volition beryllium somewhat beneath normal, portion successful the remainder of the country, determination volition beryllium nary important change. In the greeting and evening hours, determination volition beryllium frost successful the north.