Disappointing weather forecasts... (photos)

Well, although most of meteorology models were forecasting really bad and severe weather for North Greece, the rain wasn't that much, as expected and the precipitation no way reached 100mm Thursday and Friday (11&12/10/07)...
The forecasts really disappointed and in Thessaloniki the precipitation did not surpass 10-15mm only... The thunderstorms didn't struck so many areas and the phenomena were very local...For example, the precipitation was six times as much in some areas 100km west of Thessaloniki! On Friday after a rainy night (that gave only 9mm precipitation) many Cumulus clouds were developing in the afternoon East (over the mountains) and South of Thessaloniki...

 
...and some hours later few Cumulonimbus clouds appeared.

 


From that day the weather turned sunny and the next two days were also windy and cold (6oC in the morning!), because of North wind, which makes clouds disappear in North Greece... But the forecasts weren't disappointing only for Thursday's and Friday's weather, but they were totally wrong about the whole week's weather (8/10-13/10)!! Thunderstorms were supposed to prevail over North Greece every day something, that didn't happen of course... However, the positive of this change of weather was, that it rained in Athens and in other areas in South Greece after 125 days!!! Unfortunately, the drought in Crete still remains... After these forecasts, another change of weather is supposed to happen from Saturday again. It seems to be a severe storm, but as last week nothing is sure yet...
Let's hope, that it's going to rain in areas, that there still is a problem of drought and that rain amounts in Pelloponisos will not be extremely high, cause floods will not be avoided after the forest fires there...

(Sorry for bad English...Unfortunately, I’m just 16 years old...)