A cold wave and a blizzard, unusual in Italy unheard of for over 20 years.
Palermo, Syracuse, Naples or Calabria, rediscovering the snow and disadvantages.
Temperatures between minus 10 and minus 20 degrees, 700 km of highways cut, and a victim, a homeless man in southern Tuscany.
Wednesday 31 December, snow fell in abundance and in Greece until storm on the coast of the Aegean Sea, the agglomeration of Athens and as far south as the Peloponnese and Macedonia. City Valos at the bottom of the bay, north of Athens, was covered with 35-40 cm of powder on Wednesday morning, while temperatures ranged from + 3 ° (Athens) at -12 ° in the interior the country.
The snowstorm paralyzed Romania Tuesday. He fell 30 cm of snow in Bucharest, with snow drifts more than a meter due to high winds. Tuesday morning, the hills of Greece were snowy from 500 m. Italy has experienced snowfall on the Adriatic coast (Rimini) with "sea effect", a phenomenon similar to the famous "American lake effect", where the cold air passes over a sea or a large lake, taking care of moisture and snow. Temperatures to -18 ° abaissaien this Wednesday, December 31 in the morning.
These stormy conditions were also responsible for the plight of several ships.
The cold wave has reached the Maghreb after passing over the Balkans. It is a cold aisle that has elapsed from Russia to the Black Sea, the Balkans, Italy and North Africa.
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