A 36-year-old man who issued a distress call on Wednesday night after losing his bearings in a storm while hiking on Mount Dirfi in Evia has been found and is safe, the Fire Service said on Thursday.
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Three people were injured, one more seriously, after being struck by a collapsing canopy at a port shelter on the Ionian island of Kefalonia on Thursday.
The search for a missing hiker on Mount Dirfi resumed at first light on Thursday morning on the island of Evia after a stormy night that saw the emergency services receive dozens of calls for assistance.
As many as 12,000 compensation claims have reached Attiki Odos from motorists claiming to have been trapped on the Athens tollway during January’s snowstorm, though no more than 3,500 of these claims came from citizens who could provide proof of their ordeal – matching original calculations.
Greece extended its “deepest sympathies” to the people and government of South Africa over the destructive rain and flooding that hit the eastern coast of South Africa on Wednesday, killing at least 306 people.
African dust returned again in Greece on Tuesday and is expected to remain a weather feature through Thursday, according to the Athens National Observatory’s meteo.gr weather service’s forecast model.
Low atmospheric pressure and strong southerly winds have caused the sea level to drop by as much as 30 cm in parts of the Aegean, scientists say.
Gale-force winds resulted in the cancellation of all ferry services to the Ionian islands of Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Ithaca on Thursday.
Southerly winds are expected to bring large quantities of dust from North Africa to Greece, the National Observatory of Athens reported on Tuesday.
There were smiles on Friday as what has been the coldest March in 35 years neared its end with a springtime blush, bringing relief from two cold spells and skyrocketing heating bills.
A flamingo takes flight on the Kalochori Lagoon, at the Axios Delta National Park, on the outskirts of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, on Wednesday.
After a week of wet and gloomy conditions with a wintry chill, meteorologists are promising a spell of spring weather starting on Thursday and lasting through the long weekend.
The prosecutor in the trial into a 2017 flash flood that killed 25 people in West Attica assigned criminal responsibility to state services, local and regional, recommending that both the former governor, Rena Dourou, the then mayors of Mandra, Elefsina and Megara, and town-planning officials be found guilty of manslaughter, causing physical injuries and flooding.
Motorists have been urged to avoid all unnecessary journeys in Attica, Evia, Fthiotida, Viotia, as well as central and eastern Peloponnese, due to the bad weather front affecting the country.
In view of the severe weather impacting large parts of the country, including the capital, the Attica Traffic Police banned heavy vehicles on Thursday night from parts of the Athens-Lamia national highway, the Attiki Odos ring road, the Western Peripheral Highway of Ymittos and the Peripheral Highway of Egaleo.
The ban on large goods vehicles of more than 3.5 tonnes, as well as articulated buses, from using the Attiki Odos beltway in Athens and the Athens-Lamia highway will again apply from 10 p.m. Thursday due to the Filippos cold front, authorities have announced.
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