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

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

"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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What is the normal number of days per year with snow cover
at low levels around Athens, Yannis?

Hmm, it should be only about 1 in the lee-side of the mountains (suburbs of
Athens just southwest of the centre) but I really have no clue what the
number should be in the wind prone areas. I am sorry to say that I have
found no statistics for days with lying snow for Greece. On the other hand,
the HNMS definition for snow days is stricter than that of WMO. It is only
during the last few years that more data has been available thanks to -alas-
amateurs.
Just to give you a hint, at my (former) site in the SE suburbs of Athens
(142 m amsl, lee side of the mountains), one can expect 12 snow days and 3
days with lying snow per year -but with noticeable variability from year to
year. The further north and/or further uphill one goes, the more snow days
they'd get. A rough estimation for Steni (in central Evia) would be roughly
40 days with lying snow per year. At the nearby coast, the figure should be
close to 5. Put the blame on mountains!

Yannis, Zeewolde/NL
+11.3C, cloudy

"Yannis" wrote in message
ps.com...
Good morning, everyone.

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


That bloody infernal AGW.

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:09:13 -0000, "Lawrence Jenkins"
wrote:

That bloody infernal AGW.

I get very twitchy when I see posts like that as my initials are AGW.

Should I change my name?

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Alan White
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