The cold weather is set to kick in across Greece today and the first lot of snow is expected around the country this Friday, 16th of November, greekcitytimes.com reports.
According to meteorologists, rainfall will be intense especially in the south region and the Aegean islands, with a slight change expected to commence from today, Thursday 15th of November.
Rain will occur chiefly in eastern Macedonia, Thrace, Halkidiki, the Sporades, Evia, Attica, the Southwest Peloponnese, the Cyclades, and western Crete.
Across the rest of the country, the weather will generally be mild.
Winds (mostly northwest) will start to intensify mainly from the evening hours and will reach 7 Beaufort in the Aegean and 6 Beaufort in the Ionian Sea.
The very cold weather though is expected to arrive on Friday, with snow reaching 1 metre high.
On Friday, severe rain is expected in several regions of the Ionian Islands, mainland Greece (mainly Thessaly and southern) and both central and southern Aegean.
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