Easter with a surprise: warm up to +25°C, then rains and colder temperatures

The archetypal fractional of Holy Week successful Greece will beryllium truly spring weatherhowever closer to Easter a drastic alteration is expected – cold, cloudy and rainy.

According to meteorologists Clearhos Marouzakis And Sakisa Arnautoglutemperatures astatine the opening of the week will successful some places transcend +25°Cbut from Thursday the weather representation will statesman to change.

Warm and sunny astatine the opening of the week

The weather will stay stable and warm until Great Wednesday:

• temperature supra clime norm;
• mostly wide skies;
• minimum precipitation.

However, starting from the 2nd fractional of Wednesday, section rains are imaginable successful a fig of regions (Thessaly, bluish Attica, Peloponnese).

Turn to instability from Thursday

From Maundy Thursday the weather gradually worsens.

• decrease successful temperature;
• increased cloudiness;
• precipitation successful the eastbound regions of the country.

Thessaly, Chalkidiki, Attica and partially Crete will autumn under the power of the front.

Good Friday: variable weather

Instability will proceed connected Friday:

• during the time – comparatively calm conditions;
• in the evening – worsening weather from the west;
• localized rainfall and imaginable thunderstorms.

However, nary superior problems are expected for Easter services.

Easter with precipitation

The astir noticeable weather alteration is forecast for the weekend:

• Holy Saturday – rain, thunderstorms successful places;
• Easter Sunday – precipitation successful western, cardinal and bluish Greece;
• In some areas the weather will lucifer autumn alternatively than spring.

More favorable conditions will continue:

• in the Cyclades;
• in the Dodecanese;
• on Crete.

The large picture

The weather for Easter this year is processing according to the typical “Greek scenario”:

• first it’s warm and sunny;
• then – a crisp alteration successful conditions;
• and the effect is an unstable weekend.

Temperatures are returning to seasonal norms, but without the aboriginal summertime feel.

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