Greece equipped with weather stations and radar

With and with Greece will be equipped in the coming months under the AGIS programme. Specifically according to sources of Civil Protection within the first months of 2025, a contract will be signed for seven weather stations and corresponding radars. CORVERSE New weather stations and radars have been coming to fill a gap that has existed for over 20 years in the country, as Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vassilis Kikilias has pointed out. The aim of these actions is to upgrade prevention and early preparation for extreme weather phenomena. The provision of weather stations for early warning of natural disasters as well as emergency communications stations and the provision of climate data of areas of interest, projects of more than EUR 36 million, are intended to improve the capture of current weather conditions and, in particular, the quality of forecasts produced for both the area of establishment and the entire territory by promoting forecasting and safety levels. CORVERSE In particular, the fixed meteorological Radars are planned to be installed in new and already existing locations of the National Weather Radar network. Specifically, according to information, among the areas that are expected to be settled are Kavala, Thessaloniki, Preveza, Andravida, while also areas such as Skyros, Larissa, Aegina, Hymetos, Chania, Kalamata and Kythira are considered. At the same time, in the context of the AGIS programme, as it became known by cycles of Civil Protection, the provision of a short-term forecasting system (Nowcasting) with the necessary software and equipment (servers, etc.) as well as an automated information and warning system, which will be installed in the IMI and the Regional Weather Centre of Larissa as backup, is expected. Furthermore, the contract to be signed- is calculated within the first two months of 2025- includes the extension of the National Meteorological Stations Network (EMS) by providing, installing and operating a network of a total of 30 Hydrological Automatic Meteorological Stations systems, the installation and operation of a network of a total of 12 Atmospheric Electric Evacuations detection systems, the installation and operation of two systems for receiving and processing data from meteorological satellites, as well as the general upgrading of the central equipment and software infrastructure for the production and availability of critical data in the existing ESM system.