Rare May Snowfall Blankets Greece as Temperatures Plummet

Metsovo village, Greece. Credit: Flickr / Robert Wallace CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

This year’s May Day has officially been recorded arsenic the coldest in Greece in the past seventy years, arsenic a abrupt upwind displacement brought “winter” backmost to galore parts of the country.

The state experienced an extraordinarily unseasonal and abrupt acold beforehand bringing abrupt somesthesia drops of much than 10 degrees Celsius and uncommon late-spring snowfall to regions with higher altitudes crossed the state aboriginal Saturday morning.

The abrupt upwind displacement transformed emblematic outpouring landscapes backmost into midwinter scenes that resembled much of a acold December time alternatively than the 1st of May.

Where did it snowfall successful Greece?

Mount Parnassos, a large mountainous landmark successful cardinal Greece that usually transitions into a warm-weather hiking destination by aboriginal May, recorded important snowfall. Snow screen astatine higher elevations connected the upland reached betwixt 3 and 5 centimeters.
Even further southbound successful the Peloponnese, the mountainous areas of Corinthia besides registered unexpected and dense snowfall opening connected the evening of May 1. The unseasonal upwind caught some section residents and vacation visitors wholly disconnected guard.

The provincial roadworthy connecting the villages of Feneos and Zacholi, an country usually characterized by lush outpouring greenery during this clip of year, was wholly covered successful snow. Local temperatures dropped sharply, resulting successful freezing conditions good extracurricular the humanities norm for the archetypal 2 days of May.

The lowest temperatures arsenic recorded by the meteorological stations of the National Observatory. Credit: Greek Reporter, information from meteo.gr

Data from the National Observatory of Athens and its extended meteo.gr upwind presumption web confirmed the severity and dispersed of the acold snap. Meteorologists recorded wide frost aboriginal Saturday morning, heavy concentrated crossed the bluish regions of the country. The lowest somesthesia nationwide was documented successful the mountainous colony of Seli, located successful the mountainous country betwixt Veria and Naoussa successful the Imathia determination portion of Central Macedonia, wherever the somesthesia plummeted to a freezing -3.2 degrees Celsius (26 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Freezing temperatures were recorded crossed respective places successful the Macedonia and Epirus regions of Greece, too. The Nevrokopi and Florina basins are traditionally known arsenic immoderate of the coldest areas successful Greece during the wintertime months, but signaling frost determination successful May remains an exceptionally uncommon event. Weather stations logged -1.4 degrees Celsius successful some Ochyro, located successful the Nevrokopi municipality, and Vevi successful the Florina determination unit.

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The metropolis of Florina itself saw temperatures deed -1.2 degrees Celsius (29 degrees Fahrenheit). Other bluish and northwestern areas of Greece registering below-freezing conditions included Perithori successful Nevrokopi, occidental Florina, Plikati successful Ioannina, and Neochori successful Halkidiki astatine -0.5 degrees.

The abrupt acold upwind beforehand and the snowfall heavy impacted section communities crossed Greece. People were expecting modular outpouring vacation weather, but alternatively got a Christmas-like snowfall. Residents successful Seli and different high-altitude villages connected Mount Vermio, including Xirolivado, awoke to snow-covered neighborhoods connected Saturday morning. Even successful the lower-lying vale regions of bluish and Central Greece, the upwind beforehand made its beingness felt. Towns specified arsenic Florina, Kastoria, and Naoussa did not spot snowfall, but faced heavy, acold rainfall combined with a steep somesthesia drop, heavy disrupting accepted outdoor May Day celebrations.