"Phil Layton" wrote in message
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Certainly quite cold around the isles, too. It is very interesting to point
out that it snowed in areas where it is very rare to snow, like western
Greece (with a warm sea to the west and the mountain range of Pindus to the
west, which divides Greece in two in climate terms). Patras, Aegio and even
Gavdos (the southernmost tip of Europe, an island south of the prefecture of
Chania), Ierapetra and the city of Chania itself are experiencing snowfalls.

The only island pictures I have available right now are from Skopelos
(skopelosweb.gr):
http://www.skopelosweb.gr/hellasweat...opelossnow.jpg
http://www.skopelosweb.gr/hellasweat...pelossnow2.jpg
http://www.skopelosweb.gr/hellasweat...pelossnow3.jpg
http://www.skopelosweb.gr/hellasweat...pelossnow4.jpg

Now, if it snows in the *city* of Rhodes, this will be unheard
of -literally.

The north of the country remained mainly dry today, apart from eastern
Macedonia and Thrace, where it snowed in the morning. Morning temperatures
were quite low:
Florina: -18C
K. Nevrokopi: -20C
Nymphaion: -22C

Running water by the roads has frozen now and vehicles must be equipped with
snow chains to circulate throughout Athens, at least during the night. I
assume the northernmost suburbs have more problems, as temperatures have
dropped well below -8C at places and snow accumulations have exceeded one
metre of snow. The national road to Thessaloniki has just opened, after
having left drivers in their cars in blizzard conditions for 30 hours just
outside the agglomeration of Athens.
Oh, 5-7 cm of snow on the boats at the harbour of Chania, as I'm hearing
now.

And, I must add to all the above that people's faces were happy today, at
least in Athens. Snowballs were hitting me from all directions (did they
want to tell me something?) and strangerse even started talking about
personal matters.

From an icy Athens,

Yannis
-3.2C, RH 58%, SLP 1020.7 hPa