Medusa Weather Phenomenon

We are currently experiencing a rather rare weather event in Greece called the Medusa Phenomenon. I know what you are thinking, something named after Medusa must be bad. Right?

Let's first have a small review of Greek mythology, so that we can refresh our minds about Medusa. It seems that she was originally a priestess of Athena, and as part of her responsibilities to Athena Medusa took a vow of chastity. She broke her vow by marrying Posiedon.  Her punishment was to beome a green tinged monster with poisonous snakes for locks of hair.  Anyone she looked at was immediately turned to stone. Yikes, that is some punishment. Medusa was killed by Perseus, but even after death her head retained it's horrible ability to turn people to stone. 

The Medusa weather phenomenon brings bad thunderstorms, deluges, and extremely cold and windy weather. Mainland Greece has been suffering under this weather pattern. 

It has been quite cold and windy on the island over the last few days.  I'd say the wind is close to 40 mph, and at times the gusts can actually push you.  It is also cloudy, some of the clouds are mean and gray. Just as a point of reference, I have only actually seen clouds one other time on my various trips to Astypalaia.  We are on the tail end of the weather phenomenon, we are getting wind and clouds but no rain. 

The first photo was taken a bit after dawn as we were walking to school.  Lots of people were out with their cameras taking photos, it was such a novelty to see clouds.

The second photo of the Chora at night was taken the night before.  The Chora is the village at the top of the hill, and it is topped by the Kastro (castle).  The Kastro is lit up at night, I was lucky to get this shot a bit after sunset.  Notice the dark mean clouds.  The wind was blowing so hard that after chasing down the sunglasses that blew off of my head, I had to take about 20 pictures of this one view before I could get one without camera shake.

I have one question.  Where is Perseus?

Hopefully he will arrive soon and rid us of Medusa.  It is too cold and windy to go to the beach and swim.  Boo!

More soon.