I have to report that cloud has been seen over Symi in recent days, that’s not Claudia you understand, though she has been sighted, it’s the cloudy stuff that produces high humidity and, at a push, rain. But the temperature stays high and no rain has fallen as yet. However, I thought I would carry out a quick survey of the weather stations online to see what they are predicting for the days ahead.
Randomly clicking through rainfall on Poseidon Systems http://poseidon.hcmr.gr shows me nothing until Sunday when a little cloud appears over Rhodes, over lots of the rest of the country but not us on Monday and shows the potential for a downpour here and elsewhere on Tuesday morning, early. It only goes up to Wednesday.
Windfinder http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/symi which, strangely enough, predicts the wind, shows me reasonably calm winds at one to three Beaufort only, with a slight nudge to four on Friday evening (25th). The precipitation stays at 0 until Tuesday when it then ranges from 0.67 to 0.2 on Wednesday. Are you still awake?
Over on Accuweather http://www.accuweather.com/ it tells me that today is sunny, but then looking out of my window tells me that, but it also goes on to say that it’s going to be sunny all the way through the next couple of weeks, apart from Wednesday and Thursday next week when there will be ‘showers around.’ Temperatures will be in the mid-twenties they say, but remember that often these forecasts are from the weather station in Rhodes, so not always 100% accurate for Symi.
I also had a look at weather.com a site I’ve not used before. This brought me, without searching, the weather in Kolonaki (Athens) and told me that there is was ‘84f (feels like 84f)’ (bit of unnecessary info there) and the search box advised me to ‘search city, zip or place (Disney World)’ which confused me for a moment. I don’t live in a city, I found nothing in my zip or in my house, and what Micky Mouse has to do with anything… I typed in ‘Symi Greece’ (‘Symi’ comes up with ‘Symi Notio Agaio’, or ‘Symiz’ in Albania and then heads off into realms of ‘Symington UK’ etc.) where it was, apparently, ‘84f feels like 89f.’ The ten day forecast also showed rain over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hell, this is dull. Let’s move on. I think the main point is that it might rain next week. Yippee! Good for the flowers and it will wash the dust off everything, and then we can start saving water for the winter and topping up the sterna for free. Other than that, as you can tell, I’ve very little news to impart and so will get on with doing other things and leave you to your weekend.
