Weather station in alpine lake of Epirus destroyed again

A meteorological station placed at an alpine lake in northwestern Greece's Epirus region was destroyed for the second time since 2023, volunteers of the scientific project LiMnADs told Kathimerini.

"We found it on Friday, although it happened earlier," Konstantinos Alexopoulos, a PhD candidate in climate research at Cambridge University who participates voluntarily along with other scientists and students in the program, tells Kathimerini.

The project is implemented by the National Observatory of Athens-Meteo Gr, the Vikos-Aoos Geopark, the Balkan Chamois Society and the Scott Polar Research Institute and aims to collect scientific data from a point of unique biodiversity within the North Pindos National Park. 

Weather stations transmit information about wind direction and speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure and are mostly located in plains and urban...