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The 7 remarkable features of this summer

Μwe went calendar now at least in the fall, and we finished this summer too.

But what were the main features of this summer?

What was it that finally differentiated this summer from other years?

The extreme weather conditions were not few this year that created very big problems in various areas of our country, culminating of course in the tragic events with the fires in Attica, and the unrepeatable tragedy in Mati with 98 people dead in total.

Below we quote some information from a useful article from Meteo.gr.


In the table below and in the graph, the 7 remarkable features of the summer of 2018 (quarter June-July-August), in terms of winds, air and sea temperature, rain and lightning.

  • A few meltemia in July-very high in August: The number of days with strong north winds in the Aegean in July was impressively low, with only 8 days, the smallest number of days in the last 10 years. On the contrary, August 2018 was a month with a high frequency of strong north winds with 24 days.
  • Warmer seas in the Aegean: due to the absence of meltemia in July, the surface temperature of the sea in the Aegean Sea was higher by 2.5 ° C than that of the Ionian Sea, while usually the opposite happens.

 

 

  • The strongest winds of summer occurred on July 23, the day of the deadly fire in Mati, Attica. The gusts of westerly winds reached 123 km/h in Parnitha (the biggest gust that occurred in the summer of 2018 in all of Greece) and exceeded 100 km / h in the Isthmus of Corinth, in Kapareli, Boeotia and in Paximada, Karystos. In several stations of Attica the gusts of wind on that day were the strongest of the last eight years.
  • Absence of periods of high temperatures: The first short hot episode happened on the two days of July 16-17 and specifically on July 17 the temperature reached and exceeded them 40 points in areas of Eastern Sterea (Avlida, Boeotia and Theologos of Fthiotida). The second and last hot episode of the summer happened a few days later, in two days 22-23 July, when on July 23 the maximum temperature in Kranidi arrived at 42.1 degrees (the highest summer temperature in all of Greece) and in Monemvasia at 40.7 degrees.
  • H temperature did not reach 40 ° C in Attica: It is noted that in the summer of 2018 the temperature in Attica did not exceed 40 degrees in any of the stations of EAA / meteo.gr, a fact that happened for the first time since 2007 when the operation of the network in Attica began. THE highest temperature in Attica the summer took place in Rafina, on July 23, arriving at 39 points, due to the stormy winds down on the day of the deadly fire.

  • Lots of rain in much of the country: The rains in many areas reached record heights for the summer season. Indicatively, we report for June the 249 mm of monthly rainfall in Zagora, Pelion, the 198 mm in Kassandreia, Halkidiki and the 122 mm in Penteli. For July, the 229 mm of rain in Vrilissia, Attica, the 170 mm in Xanthi and the 112 mm in Serres were remarkable. Also noteworthy for August were the 176 mm monthly rainfall in Naoussa, the 100 mm in Skopelos, the 98 mm in Lamia and the 83 mm in Chania. Note that the maximum daily rainfall of the summer took place in Naoussa on August 27 with 149 mm of rain.
  • Very intense lightning activity: According to the records of the ZEUS system of EAA / meteo.gr lightning activity in July 2018 was the largest in the last 14 years, with 103.000 lightning strikes in the country.

 

Copyediting: K. Lagouvardos-B. Kotroni, Graphics: A. Moustris

Diligence of data collection: Christos Petropoulos, Stavros Dafis

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