On Nov 6, 9:34 am, "Yannis" wrote:
Good morning, everyone.

Saturday was the first snow day of Athens for this season, as it snowed
lightly throughout most of the agglomeration in the evening. Snow
settled in the northern suburbs of the city and in great portions of
the island of Evia, even down to sea level -where snowfalls was
accompanied by thunder.
Cyprus also celebrated the first snow of the season:http://www.skicyprus.com/skicyprus/cam/default.asp
while Crete woke up dressed in snow above 600 m on Sunday.

Temperatures on Saturday dropped to -9.6C just outside the town of
Ioannina and at the Parnitha station in Attica. Athens, too, saw a new
record on Saturday when temperature never exceeded +8.5C: never again
has it been so cold in the afternoon during the first half of November,
said a NOA spokesman.

Yannis, Bilthoven/NL
+12C

What is the normal number of days per year with snow cover
at low levels around Athens, Yannis? This cold outbreak looks quite
exceptional. We don't get things like that here. :-)

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey