Begs the question when the weather takes you from a Scandinavian winter to a Mediterranean Spring not just in the very same morning.
Before this current persistent cold wave, unusual for our Athenian standards in duration and intensity, we had one of the mildest winters ever. This contrasted even more yesterday's snow which led me to go out and capture it.
The day started OK, or at least OK enough to allow me to service my car outdoors but later snow came so sudden and heavy that in seconds things got white like this:
I decide to walk down the road up to the sea to see how things look like but the crazy North wind freezes my ass off to the point I can barely hold my phone to capture the moment:
The marks on the road are from a car that struggled to go uphill in this thin layer of fresh yet icy snow:
I manage to make it to the sea for some rare pictures of the snow ended just where the Aegean sea starts:
Every time I hold my phone for more than a few seconds for recording purposes my fingers go numb and I have to stop. I can't recall such a thing around here. Last time I felt something like this was on a Swiss Alpine pass on my bike with -3C late October.
I walk back home and before I even finish sorting out my pictures and videos sun comes up. It melts everything around at lighting speed to the point I can't believe my eyes that the very same place now looks like this:
To be honest I wouldn't believe it if it wasn't me there. The comparison looks like months apart and it's just minutes actually:
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I took a few short 4K clips (long was not a thing my fingers could handle in that cold) so here is a summary of them:
Stay warm and safe!
Indeed, weather has gone crazy and it is pretty disturbing.
It feels as if there was accumulated cold in the pipeline and we got it all at once now. Before these last weeks of cold winter had been impressively warm. Of course for you in the North West part of the country things could have been much different.
Holy shit!!!! 😂 I wasn't expecting to see this from you. I was expecting some summer photos, as usual.
😂😂😂 I am not going to say what I think 🤐 but you need to man up 😂, a little snow and cold wind won't kill you.
-13°C here in the morning and I haven't even taken out my gloves yet. I mean I keep them in my bag, but no need for them yet.
Good thing the snow is gone and you can continue life as usual.
You don't have to say "man up" to someone who (among other things) has crossed the whole Switzerland from South West end all the way up to Austria on a snowy day late October doing several alpine passes on his bike. The feel of cold is not described by the temperature alone. -10 can be fine on a windless sunny day (been there in Cappadocia) but even 0 with North wind at full blast can feel freeze you off in no time. I'm sure you know that cause fortunately you receive much more cold than I do annually.
Speaking of "man up" the Aussies have a funny expression: "eat some cement" 😂
😂 I've never hear of it, so thanks for the heads up, at least now I know if someone tells me 😁
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There is nothing so unpredictable as the weather!
The thing is that we are experiencing one extreme after the other even here at the friendly surroundings of Athens which is kinda scary. Hope things will be more predictable as I'll be touring Europe on my motorcycle later this year.
Oh yeahh when traveling by motorbike it isn't good if big storms just show up or even unexpected snow..
Does Greece also has sometimes overfloatings and that kinda disasters?
We do but not that much or at least not around my area. Greece has one of the friendliest environment hence it hosted a developed civilisation like the Ancient Hellenic - it's easy to survive :) When I travel in the rest of Europe I always expect the unexpected. I had snow 1st of July in Austria and faced single digit temperatures in Holland last August. Our lovely continent is far from boring haha.