Emergency Forecast Bulletin for Hazardous Weather Phenomena

RE: a. H 7824/16-11-2011 Circular of the General Directorate of Public Security

b. H 8271/5-12-2011 Circular of the General Directorate of Public Health

c. Emergency Weather Bulletin of worsening weather

a.a. 1/2012/4-1-2012/O 11:30 a.m.

 

1. We are sending you attached the above (c) related, which concerns an emergency forecast bulletin of dangerous weather phenomena of the Hellenic Meteorological Service/National Meteorological Service, valid from Friday (Theophany Day) 6-1-2012 and for the following days.

2. We ask that the bodies involved in projects and actions to address risks from dangerous weather phenomena to be put on a state of readiness based on their planning, in order to address possible problems that will be created by the occurrence of the phenomena.

 

The Director of Civil Protection of the Hellenic National Civil Protection Agency (P.A.M.T.H.)

Konstantinos Houvardas

 

Emergency Bulletins in force

Publication time: 04/01/12 09:30

WOGR91 LGAT 040930

IMMEDIATE

FROM: EMY/EMK

Hellinikon, 04-01- 2012 / 1130 B

AA 1 / 2012

TO: PERMANENT RECIPIENTS

 

EMERGENCY FORECAST BULLETIN FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER PHENOMENA

1. ON FRIDAY, THE DAY OF THE EPIPHANY (6-1-2012), THE WEATHER IS FORECASTED TO DETERMINE INITIALLY IN NORTHWESTERN GREECE AND GRADUALLY IN THE OTHER AREAS WITH MAIN CHARACTERISTICS: HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS OF INTENSITY 8 TO 10 BEAUFOR. SNOW WILL FALL IN ALL MOUNTAINS AND FROM THE AFTERNOON AND IN AREAS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MACEDONIA WITH LOW ALTITUDE (INDICATIVE ALTITUDE 400 METERS). HOWEVER, A RELATIVE IMPROVEMENT IN THE WEATHER IS EXPECTED FROM LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND FROM THE NORTHWEST.

2. ON SATURDAY (7-1-2012) IN EASTERN MACEDONIA, THRACE, THE ISLANDS OF THE NORTH AND EASTERN AEGEAN, THE CYCLADES AND THE DODECANESE ISLANDS, BAD WEATHER IS INITIALLY FORECASTED WITH SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS IN THE SEMI-MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE AND RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE OTHER AREAS, HOWEVER THE PHENOMENA WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN. WINDS WILL BE EVERYWHERE NORTHERN 7 TO 9 BEAUFORT WITH A TENDENCIES OF WEAKENING IN THE EVENING. THE TEMPERATURE WILL DROP SIGNIFICANTLY AND WILL REMAIN AT LOW LEVELS IN THE NEXT DAYS.

THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT EMK/1 CHRISOULA PETROU

THE DIRECTOR OF EMK ANT. LALOS