Air-conditioned community centers opening for heat wave

The City of Athens, among other municipalities in many parts of Greece, will be opening eight air-conditioned community centers in different parts of the capital to the general public in response to a heat wave warning.

The eight so-called "friendship clubs" will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. starting on Wednesday and at least until Friday, when meteorologists expect the heat to start subsiding.

They are located at the following addresses: 22 Mamouri in Aghios Pavlos, 26-28 Drakou and 15 Chlentrech in Neos Cosmos, Aixoneon & Mirmidonon in Petralona, 9 Aimonos in Kolokynthous, 372 Acharnon in Aghios Eleftherios, 6 Xenagora in Aghiou Meletiou and 25 Vathis & Panormou in Ambelokipi.

The National Observatory's Meteo weather service on Monday warned of a rise in temperatures in many parts of the country starting on Wednesday, as a hot air mass from Africa that hit...