At last, sun is shining and makes weather unstable!
Today, was the first day of the year with thunderstorms around Thessaloniki and Cumulonimbus clouds were appearing constantly!
The first Cumulus appeared in the morning around ~10:00 over the mountains!
Later in the day, all horizons were totally full of Cumulonimbus! One of them, a Cb towards mt Olympus had already formed an ambolt. I went to Neous Epivates, SouthWest of Thessaloniki, to watch a carnaval parade, so the photos are taken from there.
The Cumulus clouds over mt Hortiatis were growing and an ambolt was being formed on the top of them.
However, no thunderstorm appeared in Thessaloniki.
A thunderstorm was being formed over the mountains South of the city.
The Cumulonimbus towards Olympus was disolving, but...
...many Tower Cumulus were following!
The clouds South of Thessaloniki were getting bigger and darker. I could also see, that it was raining in the mountains.
At the same time, some small Cumulus congestus near N. Epivates...
...grew up all together into a thunderstorm and I soon heard the first rumbles of the year (for me)!
However, the thunderstorm's "life" didn't last so long and it was raining from Perea to the airport during the cloud's disolvation.
However, new Cumulus didn't stop to appear...
...and after Cumulus, come Cumulonimbus!
Even few hours before sunset, the Cbs were getting bigger and bigger and bigger...
The Cb North of Thessaloniki was "dieing", but some Cumulus next to it were getting higher.
I saw some lightnings under the Cb, too, but the thunderstorm seemed to weaken, as the sun was disappearing...
You can watch a time lapse video of this Cumulonimbus cloud here;
Later at night, it started raining for a while, because of a weak Cb coming from West...
It was raining also on Friday for first time after 30 days (!) and the total precipitation was 8-9mm in 3 hours.
Thunderstorms appeared early this year! Well, there were almost no snowfalls in Northern Greece for second year (!), so... let's wish thunderstorms welcome, because they are always here with us! =P
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