The Attic sky was “painted” in yellow-orange shades, with the tourists and visitors of Athens unable to enjoy the blue of Greece.
The African dust that arrived in Greece since yesterday brought with it muddy rains, while in combination with the descending southerlies, it sent the mercury soaring to 32 degrees in Crete and the Peloponnese.
In the latest forecast of the director of EMY, Mr. Thodoris Kolidas, the African dust will accompany us until noon on Wednesday, with the peak of the phenomenon expected today, until Tuesday afternoon.
For the next few days and until Saturday, W-NW winds will prevail, so the dust will not be able to “visit” us.
Weather: Five meteorologists “in the knife” – The forecast for Easter
We are only 6 days away from Holy Week and meteorologists have started making predictions for the Easter weather.
It seems that on Holy Week the weather will be unsettled and rainy with the temperature of course reaching 24 degrees.
The weather phenomena so far show that the weather from Holy Week will present disturbances which will continue until Easter, however the phenomena will not be extreme.
Clearchos Marousakis: Disturbances in the weather until Easter
During Holy Week, everything indicates that the weather conditions will be unsettled with the passage of bad weather.
We will have some rain during Holy Week while it is possible that Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday will pass a wave of bad weather where there will be rain and the temperature will drop to normal levels for the season.
According to Klearchos Marousakis, between 12:00 and 14:00 hours on Easter Sunday, showers will be seen especially in central and northern Greece.
There is no sign of severe bad weather while the temperatures will be very nice around 24 degrees Celsius.
Kolydas: There will be no major temperature extremes
“The temperature deviations in the lower layers of the atmosphere (at the level of 850 hPa, at a height of 1500 m from the surface) show us that after the noticeable drop in temperature since Thursday, the weather will warm up again, heading towards Easter. But there won’t be big temperature extremes like the ones we experienced the previous 15 days”, Thodoris Kolidas also wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter) last week.
Kanderes: It is impossible not to have a change in the weather
It is recalled that Nikos Kanderes, in his post a few days ago, had emphasized that it is impossible not to have a change in the weather.
The entire post by Nikos Canteres:
“What will the weather be like on Easter Sunday??
Based on the weather conditions, in terms of temperature and rain, which prevailed in the previous years from 2023 to 1973, in Athens and Thessaloniki we will make an assessment of the weather, given that there are no forecast maps for May 5.
Athena
The normal value of the maximum temperature for this particular day is 26 degrees.With a deviation of 3 degrees there have been 10 years with maximum temperatures of 29 degrees or more with three years of 31 degrees and one of 34 degrees in 1973!!
As for the smallest highs there were 13 years of 23 degrees and below with two 19 and one year 17 Degrees!!
During the 50 years it rained on May 5 10 times.
Thessaloniki
With a normal value of 23 degrees. There were 12 years with maximum temperatures of 27 degrees and above with the highest being 33 degrees in 1973. That year the thermometer showed 35 degrees in Tripoli and 34 degrees in Lamia!!
The lowest maximums were last year with 12 degrees and rain and in 2011 with 14 degrees. During 11 years it rained.
May is par excellence a month of instability and during the hot hours there are storms accompanied by lightning and hail.
During Holy Week and a few days after Easter Sunday, it is impossible not to have a change in the weather. We will see.”
Yiannopoulos: There won’t be much rain until May Day
“Although we don’t know exactly what the weather will be like, the temperatures will fluctuate between 26 and 28 degrees Celsius, while until May Day there will not be much rain,” says ERT meteorologist Panagiotis Yiannopoulos.
Aries for Easter weather: We won’t have anything extreme
Like every Easter, we will have some local showers at noon and in the afternoon in the mainland.
Temperatures will be good, at 25 to 26 degrees Celsius.
We don’t seem to have anything extreme at Easter, neither cold nor hot.
Peaks of Kallianos for Easter time
Yiannis Kallianos expressed his strong concern about the forecasts of the meteorologists for the Easter weather with his post.
In particular, as the first estimates of the weather for the Easter days have already started to be made, the meteorologist emphasizes that this is like a cardiologist predicting what will happen in a patient’s stress test before he even does it!
He points out that it is impossible to predict the weather more than 7-8 days in advance and wonders “why do meteorologists not respect the science they serve with toil and sweat?”.
The post of Yannis Kallianos
Have you ever visited a Cardiologist (who didn’t even know your history) wanting you to do a stress test, and before it even started, he told you:
“I predict that in the 1st minute you will have this many pulses, in the 3rd minute you will have this many, when the treadmill rises to these degrees you will have this many, your pressure in the 4th minute will be 160 mmHg to 90 mmHg and you will or will not succeed take it out or you’ll still have arrhythmias after that point” ?
No. he would never say that. Why wouldn’t he say that? Why would he respect his science and why would he not be able to predict a chaotic event whose evolution depends on a thousand and two factors, different for each person.
So I ask:
(a) Why every time, various media, they ask Meteorologists to talk about Easter weather 13 days before it comes, while we all know that the weather forecast is chaotic after 7-8 days
(b) Why do Meteorological scientists not respect the science they serve with toil and sweat and the years they studied in the auditoriums and try to make a weather estimate for 13 days, falling into the same “lumpa” every time?
(c) Does anyone really believe that the citizens, seeing this “chamber” of different (and by definition blurred) estimates for after 13 days, are finally correctly informed about whether or not they will have an umbrella with them on the day of Easter?
So the Cardiologist will say “I don’t know how your test will turn out”. The seismologist, the same. The microbiologist as well, before the results came out. However, why should the Meteorologist say that he knows and even do so publicly, regardless of the chaotic nature of the case?
I had calls today from dozens of insiders. Sorry, I won’t tell (I answered them), although I sincerely respect and appreciate these mediums. I don’t know what the weather will be like after 13 days and I say so publicly. I do not know! And I say this with full knowledge and respect for the science I follow! 6-7 days before Easter I will know, but not now.
