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So...Athens has been one true summer hell.
Well it has been an exceptionally warm summer so far for the whole of Greece but Athens in particular was caught in the middle of what is probably the warmest June and July so far in its history and probably the warmest in the European continent in terms of mean monthly temperatures.
According to the statement released a few days ago from the National Observatory of Athens June 2012 was the second hottest month in the station of Thiseio from 1897 in terms of mean maximum temperatures.A simple mean monthly temperature of 28.5C was recorded in the station of Thiseio for June.The warmest June in the station of Thiseio from 1897 was recorded in 2003 with a simple mean of 28.7C and a mean maximum of 33.9C.
The statement found here in Greek reads (my translation):
The warmest July from 1897
The station of Thiseio is located in the hill of Nymphs just opposite the hill of Acropolis in central Athens at an altitude of 107 meters and has been the oldest meteorological station in the Balkan Peninsula.It is a Stevenson Screen station and its WMO ID is : 16714. The station is commonly referred in English as either ''Athens Observatory'' or ''Athinai Observatory''.
Now from their statement above the National Observatory underlines the mean maximums but in my opinion what we should be looking is the mean monthly temperatures.With only about 20 days to go for August my feeling is that Athens will have managed for the WMO summer trimester of JJA a simple mean monthly temperature really close to 30.0C which I believe is unheard of for any station in Europe.
While we will have to wait for the climatic bulletin of NOA for July to calculate the simple mean I believe it will be higher both from the July 2007 and August 2010 simple means of 31.2C in the station of Thiseio. Our research has shown that 31.2C is probably the highest mean monthly temperature in ''geographical'' Europe with Badajoz in Spain having recorded a 31.0C simple mean back in late 19th century.
*For those of you who do not remember me I am the user ''Mesogeiakos'' but due to a mix up with passwords,emails etc I had to register again (@ mods: please could you ban my other account?I totally forgot my registration data for that one).
So...Athens has been one true summer hell.
Well it has been an exceptionally warm summer so far for the whole of Greece but Athens in particular was caught in the middle of what is probably the warmest June and July so far in its history and probably the warmest in the European continent in terms of mean monthly temperatures.
According to the statement released a few days ago from the National Observatory of Athens June 2012 was the second hottest month in the station of Thiseio from 1897 in terms of mean maximum temperatures.A simple mean monthly temperature of 28.5C was recorded in the station of Thiseio for June.The warmest June in the station of Thiseio from 1897 was recorded in 2003 with a simple mean of 28.7C and a mean maximum of 33.9C.
The statement found here in Greek reads (my translation):
The warmest July from 1897
The station of Thiseio is located in the hill of Nymphs just opposite the hill of Acropolis in central Athens at an altitude of 107 meters and has been the oldest meteorological station in the Balkan Peninsula.It is a Stevenson Screen station and its WMO ID is : 16714. The station is commonly referred in English as either ''Athens Observatory'' or ''Athinai Observatory''.
Now from their statement above the National Observatory underlines the mean maximums but in my opinion what we should be looking is the mean monthly temperatures.With only about 20 days to go for August my feeling is that Athens will have managed for the WMO summer trimester of JJA a simple mean monthly temperature really close to 30.0C which I believe is unheard of for any station in Europe.
While we will have to wait for the climatic bulletin of NOA for July to calculate the simple mean I believe it will be higher both from the July 2007 and August 2010 simple means of 31.2C in the station of Thiseio. Our research has shown that 31.2C is probably the highest mean monthly temperature in ''geographical'' Europe with Badajoz in Spain having recorded a 31.0C simple mean back in late 19th century.
*For those of you who do not remember me I am the user ''Mesogeiakos'' but due to a mix up with passwords,emails etc I had to register again (@ mods: please could you ban my other account?I totally forgot my registration data for that one).
