The warm air masses from the coasts of northern Africa towards a large part of eastern Europe and the Balkans will continue to cause very high temperatures in Greece, with the highest values occuring on Wednesday and Thursday (17 and 18-7-2024) in the interior of mainland Greece, mainly in the west, central and north.

Extremely high temperatures, especially for this time of year, are forecast to prevail in Greece over the weekend, in some areas reaching as high as 40 degrees Celsius, before gradually dropping from Monday and especially on Tuesday, May 19, according to the weather service of the Athens National Observatory, meteo.gr.