AUTHORITIES ON ALERT AS STORM "EVA" APPROCHES

 

Authorities across the country are on high alert due to the impending arrival of the "Eva" bad weather from Saturday. which is expected to last at least 48 hours. 

On Friday evening. residents of the Ionian Islands and Epirus received an emergency 112 alert warning them of dangerous weather conditions from early Saturday morning and calling them to avoid unnecessary journeys.   The bad weather will initially hit western Greece before gradually moving inland, marked by clouds, with localized rain and sporadic storms.  

From midday, rain, wind, and lightning can be expected in the Ionian Islands, western Central Greece, and the western Peleponnese.  And from the evening in the eastern Peloponnese, the middle of Central Greece, eastern Thessaly. and western and central Macedonia. 

During the night, bad weather is expected to reach Central Greece, Attika, Evia, and the rest of Thessaly.  Visibility in the morning hours will be locally limited due to the fog which will form in places in the east.

Southern winds blowing 4-6 on the Beaufort scale are expected in most  places and 7 on the Beaufort scale in the Ionian and Aegean Seas.