Getting wintry in Greece

Good evening, everyone.

November and December have been quite "normal" for the south of the Balkans with very frequent rainfalls, tornadoes being reported in Crete, Syros and Rhodes, temperatures down to -6C (so far) and snow making its appearance down to low levels.
This picture, of the White Mountains in western Crete, shows the first serious amounts of snow in the far south of Greece:
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8099/whiteus2.jpg (by Leandros Symeonidis during a flight).

If any of the forecasting models are to be proved correct, more cold air is on its way in a few days' time. The northern plains (and mountains) in Greece are setting candidacy for locally significant snowfalls beginning middle of next week. Actually there's naturally still some disagreement as in whether it's central and southern or nothern Greece that will be affected during the settlement of the cold plunge, but I believe I still stand a chance to play with snow for the first time this winter when I go to Greece next weekend. Actually, Athens itself woke up surrounded by mountains that were white down to about 500m in the middle of last week; just a few minutes drive from the city's suburbs.

In the meantime, Davis Vantage Pro2 stations are being put at locations with a sparse network of weather stations thanks to a National Obvervatory of Athens project. One of the latest ones was placed at the Vasilitsa ski resort, at an altitude of 1830m amsl. One after the other, all of them are being added to http://users.otenet.gr/~epigeo/en (table sortable by any variable).

Motregen (drizzle) and regen (rain) at times in The Netherlands in the meantime with temperatures currently between 3 and 8C around the country.

Yannis, De Bilt/NL

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