Greece’s weather will take a turn for the worse on Friday afternoon, starting with heavy rainfall and scattered rainstorms, mostly in the western and the southern parts of the country. The inclement weather will spread throughout the country over the weekend, according to the Meteo service of the Athens National Observatory.
The bad weather will affect western, central and southern parts of Greece as far as Crete during the day on Friday, and later in the evening it will also hit the Cycladic Islands.
On Saturday, the adverse weather conditions will spread throughout the country, while on Sunday they will be temporarily limited to western and northern Greece and over the islands of eastern Aegean.
Regions to be hit the hardest by the adverse weather conditions include the island of Crete, as well as the region of Attica, and Athens in particular.
At the same time, very strong southeasterly winds could in some cases reach nine on the Beaufort scale, while dust carried aloft from Africa will settle mostly over the southern parts of the country.