{"id":13337,"date":"2026-06-28T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:10:00","slug":"wind-speeds-are-dropping-while-the-temperature-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13337","title":{"rendered":"Wind speeds are dropping, while the temperature is rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winds across the country remain strong, as does the <strong>high risk of wildfires<\/strong>, while the <b>extreme heat wave that struck western Europe<\/b> over the past 24 hours and is now affecting the western and northern <b>Balkans<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>ERTnews meteorologist Anastasia Tyraski<\/strong> points out, Sunday (June 28) is the day with the strongest winds, reaching 7\u20138 Beaufort, in a band across the Aegean Sea, stretching from the northeast to the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the eastern mainland regions will also be affected, the Attica region, and the eastern parts of the Peloponnese and Euboea.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming hours <strong>a slight weakening of the winds is expected<\/strong>, with 8 Beaufort winds essentially limited to the Steno Kafireas area, while <strong>on Monday there will be a slight further weakening<\/strong>, with the north wind reaching 6 to 7 Beaufort.<\/p>\n<p>The mainland regions will now be less affected by the winds, but at the same time, <strong>temperatures will begin to rise in northern and western Greece<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday evening, a heat wave will reach the country, with temperatures reaching 37 degrees and possibly 38 locally. <strong>On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the thermometer will read 38 degrees<\/strong>, initially mainly in the northernmost regions, then spreading to the mainland, central, southern, and eastern mainland areas.<\/p>\n<p>The heat will be accompanied by local thunderstorms, allowing Greece to avoid an extreme heatwave with temperatures in the 40s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winds across the country remain strong, as does the&nbsp;high risk of wildfires,&nbsp;while an&nbsp;extreme heat wave is on its way that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}