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Get the Rodhos, Aegean local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Detailed map of Rhodes, Kos and nearby lands Topographic map of Rhodes Akramitis mountain. The island of Rhodes is shaped like a spearhead, 79.7 km (49.5 mi) long and 38 km (24 mi) across at its widest, with a total area of approximately 1,400 km 2 (541 sq mi) and a coastline of approximately 220 km (137 mi). Limestone is the main bedrock. [42]
Among the primary goals of the HNMS is the weather forecast . At the same time, it also provides valuable information on weather and climate, state services, transport, agriculture, sport, etc. HNMS employs approximately 565 people, in its main building at Elliniko and in branches throughout Greece, as its weather network covers almost the ...
For Greece to call upon the next name of its Group, the criteria are when forecast winds are above 50 km/h over land plus expected to impact infrastructure significantly. [5] For Denmark to do so, a windstorm must have an hourly average windspeed of at least 90 km/h (25 m/s).
Rhodes (Greek: Ρόδος, Ródos) is the principal city and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Rhodes , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. [ 2 ]
As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Rhodes was created out of part of the former Dodecanese Prefecture. It is subdivided into 5 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): [2] Chalki (15) Kastellorizo (Megisti, 10) Rhodes (Rodos, 1) Symi (13) Tilos (14)
Mainland Greece records a very high number of tropical nights reaching locally over 130 in Monemvasia while the islands can climb over 150 tropical nights in Kastellorizo. Winter average temperatures locally reach over 15.0 °C (59.0 °F) in the Dodecanese and below −3.0 °C (26.6 °F) in mountainous areas.
Adjacent to the island is the Strait of Kasos, through which some of the Modified Atlantic Water enters the Sea of Crete. [7] Its shape is elliptic and resembles that of Rhodes. The main island has a surface of 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi), being 17 km (11 mi) long and 6 km (4 mi) across at its widest. [8]