Tropical night

==Greece==

==Greece==

South Greece records very high spring, summer, autumn and occasionally winter minimum temperatures due to its geographical proximity to the Middle East, Minor Asia and the Sahara but also due to [[foehn winds]] especially in [[Crete]] and [[Rhodes]]. The [[World Meteorological Organization]] station in [[Kastellorizo]] registers on average 158 tropical nights per year, while [[Crete]] routinely records tropical nights even in January.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://meteosearch.meteo.gr/data/list-station-files720.cfm | title=Meteo Search | publisher=[[National Observatory of Athens]] | accessdate=27 January 2024}}</ref> Downtown [[Athens]] records 107 tropical nights per year for the period 1991-2020. In 2018, [[Lindos]] registered a record high of 178 tropical nights. On average Lindos records 6.1 days each year with minimum temperatures over 30.0&nbsp;°C.<ref name="auto1"/>

South Greece records very high spring, summer, autumn and occasionally winter minimum temperatures due to its geographical proximity to the Middle East, Asia Minor and the Sahara but also due to [[foehn winds]] especially in [[Crete]] and [[Rhodes]]. The [[World Meteorological Organization]] station in [[Kastellorizo]] registers on average 158 tropical nights per year, while [[Crete]] routinely records tropical nights even in January.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://meteosearch.meteo.gr/data/list-station-files720.cfm | title=Meteo Search | publisher=[[National Observatory of Athens]] | accessdate=27 January 2024}}</ref> Downtown [[Athens]] records 107 tropical nights per year for the period 1991-2020. In 2018, [[Lindos]] registered a record high of 178 tropical nights. On average Lindos records 6.1 days each year with minimum temperatures over 30.0&nbsp;°C.<ref name="auto1"/>

On the night between 25 and 26 of June 2007 the temperature did not drop below 38.0°C in the [[Palaiochora]] [[World Meteorological Organization]] station. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123090708/https://creteweather.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post_25.html | title=«Τρελάθηκε» ο υδράργυρος στην Παλαιόχωρα Χανίων | accessdate=25 April 2024}}</ref> On the night of the 11th of January 2021 the [[World Meteorological Organization]] station in [[Falasarna]] recorded a stunning temperature of 28.3&nbsp;°C due to strong foehn winds while the minimum temperature for that day was 22.6&nbsp;°C marking both the highest January temperature during a night and the highest January minimum temperature ever recorded in Greece.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/falasarna/|title=Current Weather Conditions in Falasarna|date=10 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110232641/http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/falasarna/ |accessdate=29 January 2024|archive-date=10 January 2021 }}</ref>

On the night between 25 and 26 of June 2007 the temperature did not drop below 38.0°C in the [[Palaiochora]] [[World Meteorological Organization]] station. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123090708/https://creteweather.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post_25.html | title=«Τρελάθηκε» ο υδράργυρος στην Παλαιόχωρα Χανίων | accessdate=25 April 2024}}</ref> On the night of the 11th of January 2021 the [[World Meteorological Organization]] station in [[Falasarna]] recorded a stunning temperature of 28.3&nbsp;°C due to strong foehn winds while the minimum temperature for that day was 22.6&nbsp;°C marking both the highest January temperature during a night and the highest January minimum temperature ever recorded in Greece.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/falasarna/|title=Current Weather Conditions in Falasarna|date=10 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110232641/http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/falasarna/ |accessdate=29 January 2024|archive-date=10 January 2021 }}</ref>