August 23rd 2009 - a day to remember
Between August 21st and August 24th 2009, a huge forest fire burned a very big part of Northeast Attica region.
Dionyssos Satellite Observatory, located in Agios Petros-Dionyssos, at the Northeast slopes of mount Penteli, took a direct hit (for the 3rd time after 1995 &1998) at Sunday the 23rd around 12 noon. The fire burned around 3/4 of the Observatories area.
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During the fire's sweep, the temperature at the weather station rose to the "super" level of 50.9 degrees Celsius at 12:23pm.
The only thing burned from our weather equipment was a cable from the rain gauge.
Almost every power or telecom poll was burned making even access difficult sometimes. So we lost power for 3 days and still out of telecoms (Aug. 27).
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We hope to be back online the next coming days.
