The winter of 2019-2020 was warm for most of Greece, based on data collected by the automatic meteorological stations of the Athens National Observatory. Despite being warmer than average, the rise in temperatures did not match that seen in other European countries which, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, experienced the warmest winter in the last 165 years, with temperatures 3.5 degrees warmer than the average winter temperature of the period 1981-2010, ANA reports.
Of a total of 16 selected stations in Greece, 11 of them showed positive deviations and only five presented negative deviations in comparison with the previous decade. The year’s “champion” for a warm winter was the northeastern city of Orestiada, where the average temperature was 1.2 C higher than the average temperature in the period 2010-2019.
RELATED TOPICS: Greece, Greek tourism news, Tourism in Greece, Greek islands, Hotels in Greece, Travel to Greece, Greek destinations, Greek travel market, Greek tourism statistics, Greek tourism report
Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons License: CC-BY-SA Copyright: Jean Housen
