The absolute champion of European heat: Lindos, Greece

And just to highlight the differences between windward and leeward sides in Rhodes

Check out the data of the Port of Rhodes from the Davis fan aspirated station of the Greek Coast Guard. Ok only 4 years of data but you can see the crazy differences


www.meteocam.gr/rhodes/

More on European comparisons

Below a rather interesting find since I compared similar Davis fan aspirated stations for the same period (2014-2022).

It appears that Lindos actually challenges in summer maxes even Seville in the interior of Andalusia! I purposely chose the hottest Davis fan aspirated station I could find in Seville which is a rooftop one in downtown Seville (UHI and all since Seville is a pretty big city). Of course Cordoba is traditionally hotter than Seville and has the highest summer maxes in Europe but I can't find any fan aspirated station for Cordoba.

In any case take a look at July...only 0.1C between them. In fact if we exclude July 2022 when Seville smashed its all time July average max record with 38.7C, Lindos would actually lead by 0.3C for the period 2014-2021!

It's surprising that a coastal area in Europe can even challenge the areas with the highest summer average maxes on the continent. Seville is 70 km inland versus Lindos right on the coast (150-200 meters from the coast).

www.tiempoensevilla.es/wxnoaaclimatereports.php

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Altea never maded frost.

He said his piece. Doubt we will see him ever again.

Did move to Greece? 

"Muh Stevenson Screen"....

Actually no!

If you bothered to read the paper from the National Observatory of Athens you would see they take extra care on how they mount stations on urban environments plus the fact that NOA is the best weather agency in Greece even surpassing our national Met office! Basically the way the station is placed on the roof is a guarantee that thermal inversions would not create any biases in minimum Ts. Take also into account that the station is outside Lindos proper on the foothill overseeing the parking area and is the only building in the wider area. 

Let alone the fact that thermal inversions are almost non existent in Greece's south coasts. Basically, the fact that we are talking about a Davis fan aspirated station, coupled with the excellent mounting of the station and the impeccable maintenance by NOA team make the station a golden standard on urban environments. You wont find anything better internationally. I have been an avid weather enthusiast for many years and I can say that there is no weather agency in the world that pays so much attention to detail on a Davis network. Actually there is no Davis network as far as I am aware by any weather agency. Most agencies who have urban stations use crap passive automatic stations. 

Ok, I get it you are not Greek so you have no idea how well respected NOA is in Greece. They take EXTRA care on how their stations are maintained. They provide excellent quality control and meta analysis of their station data nearly on real time! They pick up the slightest biases almost immediately and correct them on the spot. Often by publishing separate announcements on that very day (also on social media). The NOA team is a very dedicated team of excellent scientists. 

I bet that if you place a Stevenson Screen next to Lindos NOA station the data would provide us be even higher Ts! We have seen that empirically when we compared multiple Stevenson Screen stations in Greece from our national Met office (HNMS) with the Davis stations of NOA.  

So yeah, the best of the best!

That's a pathetic racist message. Who ever wrote that is stuck in Greece's bailout era when Greece was on the international spotlight. Basically, stupid generalizations of a clueless bitch