Panormitis Festival

After a calm weekend of starry skies, flurries of rain came rattling in during Sunday night. Shortly before daybreak a sustained rumbling sound, like aeroplanes immediately overhead, heralded the arrival of a violent storm. Our poor webcam on the Symi Visitor office terrace pirouetted so violently it snapped clean off its mounting and was hanging, suspended by its wires, when I arrived for work a couple of hours later.

Unfortunately it looks as though we are set for a week’s worth of unsettled and stormy weather and it may prove to be a wet Panormitis festival this year. A country-wide drop in temperatures is expected and many parts of Greece have had their first snowfall. Here on Symi temperatures should drop no lower than 14 degrees at night and be around 20 at midday as the rainy weather usually blows in from the south but northerly winds will prevail in the Aegean. At this stage no strong winds are forecast apart from the squalls associated with thunderstorms so the ferries for the Panormitis festival should not be affected.

Have a good week.

Regards,
Adriana