PM Mitsotakis briefed on the upcoming adverse weather conditions expected within hours

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis joined a meeting via teleconference held at the Operations Coordination Centre in the region of Thessaly on Monday, during which he was briefed on the worsening weather conditions expected to prevail in the region within the next few hours.

• The new wave of bad weather is expected to affect the already flood-stricken areas of Thessaly, which were hard hit by Storm Daniel.

  Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias was already in Thessaly, while due to the imminent change in the weather, as forecast by the National Meteorological Service, state mechanisms were on alert.

Weather system ‘Elias’ to bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail

In an updated severe weather warning issued, the National Meteorological Service said that the latest bad weather system “Elias” is expected to arrive in Greece on Monday, bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms with a high frequency of lightning strikes and hail in many parts of Greece until Thursday.
On Monday, Storm Elias is expected to chiefly affect Thessaly (especially Karditsa and Trikala) and western Macedonia, parts of Central Macedonia and Fokida, Fthiotida, Evrytania and Viotia in Central Greece. It may briefly also impact Epirus, west Central Greece and the north Peloponnese.

On Tuesday, rain and storms are forecast in the Ionian Sea, mainland Greece (except in Macedonia and Thrace) and later the Sporades islands and north Evia. The most rainfall is expected in Thessaly, Central Greece and Epirus.

On Wednesday, intense weather phenomena are forecast to affect the Ionian Sea, central and southern mainland Greece, the Sporades islands, Evia, western Crete and possibly the western Cyclades islands. The biggest quantities of rain are expected to fall in Karditsa, Fthiotida, eastern parts of Magnesia and north Evia.

Strong rain and storms are forecast to continue until the afternoon on Thursday in the Sporades islands, Magnesia, north Evia and northeastern Central Greece before gradually subsiding.

Source: ANA – MPA

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