Phil – this will be a familiar picture to you from last year with rattling window shutters and rain coming in under the balcony door! Oh, the vagaries of the weather. Our little Mediterranean low that we successfully did battle with yesterday has come back to taunt us. Instead of moving NE over Italy to Slovenia with a weak trailing front to the SW as shown on yesterday’s forecast, it has moved SE and developed into a significant feature presently centred between Italy and Greece, and bringing with it rain, strong winds, thunderstorms later and of course, forecast moderate icing above FL60. With high mountains over the Peleponnese directly on our route to Crete, there is no low level sneaky route available so we have another day in Corfu and will leave for Sitia early tomorrow when the weather forecast is good with a useful tailwind. We built a day’s bad weather delay into our travel schedule so no problem with our planned departure for Egypt on Saturday.
Later in the day, the rain and cloud cleared as we walked to a cafe for tea and a beer. The photo to the left is taken looking NE towards Corfu Town.