The scientific met Risk Assessment Committee while at this time an inter-ministerial meeting is being held under the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vassilis Kikilia, in view of the dangerous weather phenomena expected in the country.

As the minister stated, “based on the extensive briefing of the Risk Assessment Committee and according to the EMY bulletin, from tonight evening and for the next few days there will be hazardous weather phenomena in many areas of the country”, while pointing out that “this is not a summer instability, but an autumn system”. “Practically, this means that the bad weather will last longer, so local flooding is not ruled out”, underlined Mr. Kikilias.

Specifically, Mr. Kikilias stated:

“Based on the extensive information provided by the Risk Assessment Committee and according to the EMY bulletin, dangerous weather phenomena will occur in many areas of the country starting tonight and for the next few days.

This is not a summer instability, but an autumn system. In practice, this means that the bad weather will last longer, so local flooding is not excluded.

More specifically, from this evening until the early hours of the morning, large amounts of rain will occur mainly in the Ionian, while Epirus, the Western Mainland and the Western Peloponnese will also be affected.

Also, tomorrow from the early hours of the morning until the afternoon, the bad weather will affect Western and Central Macedonia, as well as Northern and Western Thessaly.

An inter-ministerial committee meeting has already been convened with the participation of all the involved bodies, i.e. the security forces and the armed forces, the local government, the concessionaire highways, etc. for the preparation and coordination of the state mechanism”.

It is noted that according to the updated Emergency Deterioration of Weather Bulletin (EDEK) issued today by the National Meteorological Service (EMS), the Emergency Deterioration of Weather Bulletin, issued on Sunday 09-08-2024, is upgraded to an Emergency Hazardous Weather Phenomena Bulletin according to with the latest forecast data. The barometric low, which causes bad weather “ATENA” in the Central Mediterranean and moves eastward, is predicted to cause dangerous weather phenomena in our country from the evening of Monday (09-09-24) until the evening hours of Wednesday (11-09- 24) with locally heavy rains and storms mainly in the western, central and northern mainland as well as in the islands of the Northern and Eastern Aegean. The phenomena will be accompanied by a high frequency of lightning, hail and strong gusty winds.