The snowfall of 2019 and the rare phenomenon that hit Thessaloniki (PHOTO)
Three years are completed by the heavy snowfall in Thessaloniki, which was caused by the bad weather “Sofia” during the period 4-5 / 1/2019.
According to northmeteo.gr, the snowfall started slightly on the morning of 4/1. However, there was a significant deterioration at noon of the same day, when the snowfall zone was coming from eastern Halkidiki, the city was dominated by heavy snowfall.
However, the eruption was short and followed by an afternoon rest until night, when wet gas masses from the southeast (Halkidiki-Thermaiko) brought heavy snowfall until the morning of the next day (5/1).
The convergence of the gas masses was so intense that storms were created in Thermaikos and the first leg of Halkidiki:
The phenomenon of 2019 was quite intense, without the frost conditions of 2017. “The episode of 2019 was an extensive bad weather that affected a very large part of Europe and the country with very low temperatures,” said in the past the emeritus professor of Meteorology and Of Climatology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Theodoros Karakostas.
Regarding the icy rain, Mr. Karakostas stated that it causes when “the rain falling from above, where the temperature is higher, reaches the ground where the cold prevails and freezes. The ice that is created is transparent and appears black due, mainly to the road surface where it is created, hence the name. The situation that is taking shape is extremely dangerous as the ice is not visible to the driver of the vehicle “.
The “frozen” rain had been observed in Kalamaria and Thermi. “At the time when the snowfall stopped and sleet fell, it reached the ground and became ice.”
See photos and videos of TyposThes from the snow of 2019