A few clouds that will gradually decrease, make up the weather forecast for Friday, 05/11 in Kythera. The winds will be light, from eastern directions, 1-2 Beaufort. Humidity levels will reach 100% early in the morning and late at night, and will fluctuate to lower levels during the day. We expect medium dust concentration, with temperatures registering a wide divergence in minimum and maximum values, ranging between 14 and 26 degrees Celsius.
Weather forecast for the whole country
Sunny with some clouds, increasing in the east and south in the morning hours, increased humidity and local fog mainly in the mainland, light winds in the Aegean Sea, moderate and locally strong southeast winds in the Ionian Sea, favoring the transport of African dust mainly in the west and south, high temperature for the season.
More specifically:
For Friday, November 5, 2021, sunny weather with some clouds in the morning hours in the east and south, increased humidity and local fog in the evening and early morning hours resulting in limited visibility. The atmospheric circulation favours the transport of African dust in the western and southern parts.
The temperature will range from 8 to 23 degrees in Northern Greece, 11 to 26 degrees in Central and Southern Greece, 13 to 29 degrees in Western Greece, 13 to 25 degrees in the Cyclades and Crete (locally in Northern Crete up to 27 degrees), 13 to 26 degrees in the East Aegean islands and the Dodecanese.
The winds will blow in the Aegean from variable directions, light, with the exception of the Southeastern Aegean where the winds will blow from northwestern directions almost moderate 4 Beaufort, while in the Ionian Sea from southeastern directions moderate 4-5 Beaufort and locally strong 6 Beaufort.
Sunshine with a few clouds in the morning hours and increased humidity, resulting in limited visibility in the evening and early morning hours are expected on Friday in Attica. The temperature will range from 13 to 24 degrees Celsius. The winds will blow from variable directions, light.
We expect sunshine with sparse clouds and local fog from the evening to the morning hours on Friday in Thessaloniki. The temperature will range from 12 to 21 degrees Celsius. The winds in Thermaikos will blow from variable directions, light.
New service from the National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr - Flammability mapping of dead forest fuel
In recent decades, our country has been continuously affected by forest fires of great intensity and extent, which have particularly negative consequences, the most important of which are human losses and the disturbance of natural ecosystems.
One of the most important factors affecting the intensity and overall fire behaviour is the moisture content of dead fuel (e.g. needles, leaves, branches), referred to in the international literature as Dead Fuel Moisture Content (DFMC). Knowledge of the moisture content of this category of forest fuel allows the determination of the degree of forest flammability and plays an important role in fire planning and forest fire suppression.
In the framework of the CLIMPACT project, a service for mapping the daily moisture content of fine dead fuel was created, whose products can be used operationally for the timely and effective response to fire incidents (https://meteo.gr/fire/fuelmoisture.cfm). This service uses observations from the EAA's network of automatic weather stations / meteo.gr in combination with sophisticated moisture calculation models. The produced cartographic products cover the entire Greek territory and are updated on a daily basis. The following example shows a daily dead fuel moisture map for 21 September 2021 (Map).
The cartographic products of the daily moisture content of dead fuel are expected to cover another important gap that existed until now in our country, which concerned the providing geographical information regarding the flammability limits of the dead fine fuel. In addition, together with the very high resolution model (IRIS), the measurements of its dense network of meteorological stations and the processed satellite images, the National Observatory of Athens and in particular the meteo.gr unit, has in recent years developed a comprehensive set of tools for monitoring and operational planning of forest fire response.
