A yellow warning for extremely high temperatures was issued by the Meteorological Department.
According to the relevant announcement, the maximum temperature today is expected to rise to around 40 degrees Celsius.
Weak low pressure and hot gas mass, which gradually subsides from Saturday, affect the area.
Today the weather will be mostly clear, while in the afternoon there will be locally increased clouds in the mountains. The winds will blow in the morning mainly marine patients, 3 beauforts to later become mainly southwesterly to northwesterly, weak to moderate, 3 to 4 beauforts. The sea will be a little turbulent, but in the afternoon the wind will be a little turbulent. The temperature will rise to around 40 degrees inland, around 32 on the west coast, around 34 on the rest of the coast and around 30 degrees in the higher mountains.
Tonight the weather will be mostly clear. The winds will blow mainly southwesterly to northwesterly, up to 3 beauforts, but initially in the west to moderate, 3 to 4 beauforts. The sea will become calm to a little turbulent, but in the west and locally in the north it will remain a little turbulent. The temperature will drop to around 21 degrees inland, on the west and north coasts, around 23 on the south and east coasts and around 18 degrees in the higher mountains.
On Thursday, the weather will be mostly clear, while in the afternoons there will be locally increased clouds in the mountains. The temperature is not expected to change significantly, remaining significantly above the average climatic values, mainly inland and in the mountains.
On Friday the weather will be mostly clear, while in the afternoons there will be locally increased clouds in the mountains. The temperature is not expected to change significantly, remaining significantly above the average climatic values, mainly inland and in the mountains.
The Saturday, the weather will be mostly clear, but in the west there will be increased clouds. However, clouds that will develop in the afternoon, in the mountains and inland, are likely to give isolated rain. The temperature is expected to drop, but to remain a little above the average climatic values.
Source: alphanews