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Corfu has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa) featuring hot, dry summers and mild to cool, very rainy winters, which are much wetter than other Greek islands. [19] The highest temperature ever recorded is 42.8 °C (109.0 °F) on 24 July 2007 while the lowest is −6.0 °C (21.2 °F) on 17 January 2012.
Heatwave temperatures set to peak across Europe today, exceeding 44C in Greece
[75] [76] In June 2024, both Sparta and Serres registered a record mean max temperature of 37.6 °C (99.7 °F) while temperatures soared as high as 44.5 °C (112.1 °F) on the island of Crete. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] According to the National Observatory of Athens in July 2024 Greece experienced its longest lasting heat wave in recorded history with 16 ...
The Palace of St. Michael and St. George (Greek: Ανάκτορο των Αγίων Μιχαήλ και Γεωργίου) is a palace in Corfu City on the island of Corfu, Greece. Commissioned by Sir Thomas Maitland, it originally served as the residence of the British Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.
Corfu (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Κερκύρας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of the Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the ...
Corfu (/ k ɔːr ˈ f (j) uː /, also US: / ˈ k ɔːr f (j) uː /) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα, romanized: Kórkyra, pronounced; Medieval Greek: Κορυφώ, romanized: Koryfó; Latin: Corcyra) is a city and a former municipality on the island of Corfu, Ionian Islands ...
The following is a list of the most extreme temperatures ever recorded in Greece. Greece has recorded a high temperature of 48.0 °C in Elefsina and Tatoi (both located in the Athens metropolitan area). In June 2007, Monemvasia in mainland Greece recorded a minimum temperature of 35.9 °C. [1] [2] [3]
Maitland arrived in Corfu on 16 February 1816, and eight months later, on 25 October 1816, forty-six noble Corfiots made a proposal for the construction of a triumphal arch in his honour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The monument was eventually constructed in 1821 in a completely different form of a rotunda with twenty Ionic columns.