Severe snowfalls after 2 years in Northern Greece! (photos)

At last! After 2 years of dry and boring weather, I'm watching snowflakes again! I had forgotten how it was to see snowflakes flying around! The weather is back to normal again.

The first snowflakes appeared Friday ~22.30 in the city of Thessaloniki with 3oC!


But as the temperatute was falling and the snowfall was getting more severe during the night, snow started covering trees, parks, but unfortunately not the streets...


Early today the temperature was around 0,5oC, but soon started to rise, so the snow began to melt...
This photo is taken in the center of Thessaloniki early today, but not by me.


However, snowfalls were getting again even more severe at noon, but the streets just became wet...

That does not make me sad at all, because the winter has just started and a Christmas-atmosphere was made! I am even more happy, especially when I see, that it hasn't snowed at all in areas of Northern Europe, such as South Norway!
The snow amount was only 1cm in the center in Thessaloniki, but in other towns in Northern Greece the snow was much more... For example, in Veria 10cm, in Kilkis 15-20cm, in Katerini 15cm, in Xanthi 10cm...

You can watch a video of the snowfalls here:


So yes, that's a normal start for winter, cause last winter was the worse! After the October (2006) floods, November started dry without rain and whole winter continued with droughts without snowflakes at all and only few days with rain... In contrast with Northern Europe and especially Southern Norway, where the amount of snow in February 2007 was over 4 meters!!! Neither winter, nor spring was rainy and so came summer, with even worse weather! Dry weather and 3 heatwaves with temperatures over 40oC, that lasted for days additionally, whereas Northern Europe was experiencing rainfalls and floods!!! The worst summer for years, but fortunately after the rainy days in October and November the weather came back to normal and there are hopes and many estimates, that the coming winter will be really cold and full of snowfalls and why not, a second 1988 or 2001 for Thessaloniki?