I love Greece. I lived on the island of Crete for 2 years. The people, culture, food, and lifestyle of the Greeks are amazing. I can’t believe the snow in Athens. Beautiful.
As a Canadian I have to admit the comments were humorous. Of course you’ll be wet. Of course the cars will struggle, they don’t have snow tires. Enjoy the snow while it lasts. Cheers 👍🏼
snowing in Greece is a very common thing. At the north of Greece and all the mountains. We have many ski resorts. It's just Athens and the islands that rarely get snow.
Athens throughout its meteo history, has had snowfalls like this, its not the first time and definitely not the last one. Such amount of snow of course doesnt fall every year (although we had 2 times in a row this time 2021 and 2022). Winters are generally mild in Greece compared to northern Europe, but it can snow a lot all over Greece,sometimes even by the seaside. We have branded Greece only as a summer tourist destination and this is actually bad, because the mainland is totally mountainous with very beautiful sceneries, it is not that we are a country of islands
yeah exactly but winter, is for us, the greeks, to enjoy it without tourists, so dont be sad, let the winter vaca for us, come again at the summer when we choose just to enjoy our homes in the village, this is the hard true, dont be mad but think a destination full of tourists , and think again the same dest without any tourists, silence this is what i enjoy the most
Winters in northern Greece is defitely not mild. Greece is not just Athens and the islands. If you live in Florina or Kastoria you will see what winter really is.
@@johnkimble4119 ''Winters are generally mild in Greece compared to northern Europe''.That means that in most places of Greece (not all), winters are mild ''in comparison to Northern Europe''.Even Florina which is a mountainous city cant be compared with winters in Poland,Russia,Finland,the Baltc countries and so on.Thats the spirit of the comment. So far this winter Kastoria didnt have a significant snow cover,considering its location and altitude
Every winter without fail it will snow (a lot) in Alpine regions throughout Greece and the big islands like Crete and Evia but to see so much of it in Athens city itself is amazing! I even heard sunny hot spots like Santarini and Mykonos got a dusting!
@@ΑθανάσιοςΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ-θ7γ Funny, Thanase, huh? Well, I am glad that at least you smile, if I could make all my Greek brothers (or half-brothers I should say) smile, I would be ok with that! 😉
@@GioBall That's what I meant... the half inch you get otherwise and melts within hours doesn't really count... When I was a kid there were years without one single snowflake, only in the north of the country.
Athens is so diverse! We had the worst heatwave in 2021 with 45 degrees for about a week and now heavy snow that hasn't fully melted yet after 4 days 🤗
For a country where everyday we have sun this is rare ! I live in Greece but in a higher altitude where every year we have snow. In Athens though is really strange.
Seeing it for me living in Poland is so funny! Dont used to winter tyres, winter driving and snowing all day or days with minus degrees! Something what is just normal in my climate
Foss, you didn't get enough rain in Turkey. Now you're having to deal with snow in Athens, Greece. From Rainman to Snowman. hope you're doing ok. All the best. 👍👍 Jim and Harriet.
Great! It is lake effect snow. So what happens is that very cold air from the north or north east blows over the warm sea and so snowshowers (big ones) appear and you get these amounts of snow. Over here in NL we had one day and that was only in my province at the start of december and it was nothing like this. The winter, again, has been very mild. Last winter we had just 10 days with snow and day and night frost in february and snow (but without real cold) in january. I would love to see this over here but it is becoming more and more rare. HJave fun with it!
@@zef27 it is called lake-effect snow. We have it here to, it is from the North Sea not exactly a lake either but that is how it is called. After the American Great Lakes, where the name (I think) was first used for these kind of snowshowers. So it is just a name for the Phenomenon.
Very bizarre to see such heavy, wet snow in Athens! I doubt whether any of the vehicles on the road have proper snow tires. Up here in northern Pennsylvania, we have plow trucks to clear the streets quickly when it snows, but Athens must be paralyzed! Good luck, and thanks for enduring the weather to show us your entertaining walks in interesting locales. Stay safe and healthy out there!
In The Netherlands all roads are immediately treated when even the slightest frost is expected. So that is really, really often. Snow can be treated with salt too, but it fails when it is -7 C or colder. We have snowploughs etc but they can't reach every single road. Most people have wintertyres or allseasons (which tend to be virtually as good as wintertyres, I have them) but the few that don't get stuck or cause accidents. In countries like Greece, where inlower areas snow is not so common I bet it causes a lot of trouble. On the other hand snow is not that exceptional in Athens. I have seen pictures of the Acropolis in snow more than once.
@@Serenoj69 It used to be really rare but the last couple of years it snows a lot, even in Athens. It's time to start taking measures as the ones you mentioned, since it seems the climate change is now super obvious here.
@@Serenoj69 i live in northeastern Turkey where it can even snow in summer. you are right salt means nothing when it is -20C. it got as low as -40C last winter and -35C this year. WE always drive on ice
@@SYldz67 yeah I know near Kars etc it is really cold because it is also really high. Much colder than where I live for sure. Winters have warmed up considerably over here in the last 30 years. Not a single winter has been severe in this century (we have cold, severe, very severe and extreme so severe is not even that cold). It is simply beyond belief nowadays to know that we have had months where the temperature simply failed to get above zero. So it was freezing, day and night the whole month (example february 1947). Or march months where from 10-20 march with -10 C. Not at night, but during the day. That is totally impossible now. I envy your climate!
it happened last year. and I can guarantee this is how it happened this year as well, and there were lightnings too during the blizzard, something really rare
How often does Athens get snow like this? I live in Scotland and we've had 1 day of snow this year, just a couple of centimetres, we've not even had much frost, it's been like 7C every day for about 6 weeks.
It is the second year that there is so much snow in Athens. Both last year and this year the snow is heavy and many problems were created. However, as I read, it has been snowing in Athens for two consecutive years since 1938.
@@ΘωμαςΛιακος-φ5π Yeah, we are very far north, but because the UK is an island, we tend to get warmed by the sea so it's actually rare for us to get extreme cold, it does happen, but not very often. I think mainland Europe is like mainland USA, where they get what's know as continental weather, so like warm in the summer and cold in the winter, unless of course you are far south, then you just get hot summers and temperate winters. Still it's interesting to see this much snow in Athens.
Oh yes! Cool commentators below in a strict tone tell us that Athenians are experienced in snow and the video, as it goes on, completely contradicts their comments!😅 Wonderful video!
Thanks for this. Everything seems so surreal. Reminds me of walking along a Grand Theft Auto scene. Good thing is no one is clubbing, bashing or shooting anyone. Anyway great video.
snow in greece is not rare phenomenon... Every year of my life in greece, it snows a lot. Greece is stereotyped to be a warm country that is not the case. Where i am from it gets -20 in the winter! Epirus!!
Τhis snowfall even though not rare, came to show the incompetence of the greek gov where many people stranded in Attiki Odos motorways and dozens of homes left with no electricity for over 20 hours. An utter chaos.
You call that snow; come to nyc or up north like Buffalo, that was a piece of cake in Athens,Athenians they don't know how to drive in any amount of snow.
@@ekfylobifteki the point is, they making a big deal, like it was the end of the world,stop acting like a bunch of babies,that's my point,like it or not.
You just compared north Pole with Sahara desert :) For your own knowledge in Athens is not snowing at all, what you see there is once in a moon time :)
@@LADmob @LADmob - UNSEEN Walks thats actually not correct. It does snow in Athens, in fact based on other Greeks I talked to, it used to snow much more frequently in Athens but now rarer due to climate change, but it does snow, if not in the center, then certainly in the suburbs. Maybe not heavy snow as described in your video tho. I should send you pics from our backyard from a month ago where everything. including the outdoor eating table is completely covered in snow. lol Its the same as these heats that Greece is experiencing now, it was never so hot during summer in the Balkans, now it is. Btw, Im from the Balkans originally. ;)
When cold air masses move across the Aegean Sea, the warm and moist air above the sea rises, cools, and condenses into clouds. As these clouds move towards the land, they release their moisture in the form of snow when the temperature is low enough. This phenomenon is known as the "sea-effect snow" or "maritime-effect snow" and it is similar to the effect which is often observed in regions with large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes region in North America. People in the comments say that this is not a heavy snowfall but they are wrong. According to the USA National Weather Service, a heavy snowfall is typically defined as a snowfall rate of at least one inch (2.54 cm) per hour, sustained for at least two hours. The snowfall rate of ''Elpida'' snowstorm exceeded 10cm per hour in some areas, leading to the accumulation of over 40cm of snow in parts of the city of Athens, especially in the eastern suburbs in less than 16 hours. Sea-effect snow is not a rare phenomenon for the eastern parts of Greece, particularly in regions such as Euboia, Voiotia, and Attiki but the amount of snowfall can vary from year to year. Athens is surrounded by mountains which act as a natural barrier and provide a degree of protection from extreme weather events but the northern suburbs of Athens are located at higher elevations than the city center, and therefore they are more prone to snowfall.
@@snowstorm1936 yes! We also get lake effect,well sea effect snow in Eastern England & Scotland,if the conditions are perfect for it,& we get bitter Arctic or Siberian air on a NorthEasterly or Easterly wind crossing the North Sea. ❄️❄️☃️⛄ All East facing coasts of Europe get this sea effect snow,even places like Barcelona,now & then...but obviously the coasts further away from the East & North,get this less often than other areas.The Black Sea coast of Northern Türkiye,Istanbul included,& the coasts of Bulgaria & România get heavy sea effect snow from the Black Sea,usually at least twice per Winter. ❄️❄️☃️⛄
Snowing is not rare in Greece. Maybe a bit rare in Athens but we get snowfall in higher altitudes every year hence we got plently ski resorts!
I love how big cities become so quite and peaceful when it's snowing, walking in a scenery like this is enjoyable
Athens has a very low vibe
I love Greece. I lived on the island of Crete for 2 years. The people, culture, food, and lifestyle of the Greeks are amazing. I can’t believe the snow in Athens. Beautiful.
Greek is great, the city's.. People, culture, this year where. To come Greece..
Greets from Holland
Είτε με Ήλιο, είτε με Χιόνια και πάλι Πανέμορφη είναι η ΑΘΉΝΑ ΜΑΣ ❤️
Χωρίς τον Μητσοτάκη και τα 300 τομάρια θα ήταν πιο όμορφη
@@mcelaris Συμφωνώ Απόλυτα!!!
Filia Ellada mou. Edw taxideuontas Indiana, Illinois, Iowa exei -20° Greetings from USA ❤
As a Canadian I have to admit the comments were humorous. Of course you’ll be wet. Of course the cars will struggle, they don’t have snow tires. Enjoy the snow while it lasts. Cheers 👍🏼
it was last just for one day.this is the greek snow ;(
More tips please! We have no experience, even the snow chains were broken!
@@amaliavet under those circumstances, just stay home.
@@xdx2653 In Athens it lasts one day not everywhere in Greece dude...
In northern Greece there are cities with a lot of snow for days.
Ιts not rare the snow in Athens .in past it has many problems and a lot of snow 2002 ,2004,2006,2008
I love it when it snows in Greece ❤️ ❄️ ⛄️
snowing in Greece is a very common thing. At the north of Greece and all the mountains. We have many ski resorts. It's just Athens and the islands that rarely get snow.
Athens throughout its meteo history, has had snowfalls like this, its not the first time and definitely not the last one. Such amount of snow of course doesnt fall every year (although we had 2 times in a row this time 2021 and 2022). Winters are generally mild in Greece compared to northern Europe, but it can snow a lot all over Greece,sometimes even by the seaside. We have branded Greece only as a summer tourist destination and this is actually bad, because the mainland is totally mountainous with very beautiful sceneries, it is not that we are a country of islands
yeah exactly but winter, is for us, the greeks, to enjoy it without tourists, so dont be sad, let the winter vaca for us, come again at the summer when we choose just to enjoy our homes in the village, this is the hard true, dont be mad but think a destination full of tourists , and think again the same dest without any tourists, silence this is what i enjoy the most
Winters in northern Greece is defitely not mild. Greece is not just Athens and the islands. If you live in Florina or Kastoria you will see what winter really is.
@@johnkimble4119 ''Winters are generally mild in Greece compared to northern Europe''.That means that in most places of Greece (not all), winters are mild ''in comparison to Northern Europe''.Even Florina which is a mountainous city cant be compared with winters in Poland,Russia,Finland,the Baltc countries and so on.Thats the spirit of the comment. So far this winter Kastoria didnt have a significant snow cover,considering its location and altitude
@@johnkimble4119 winters in Kato-Nevrokopi as well. It doesn't hold any records but it's the most consistent in being cold and snowy.
Being part greek, thanks for sharing. One thing i like about snow is that places are quieter.
Looks very peaceful !!
I couldn't tell if it was Athens or Montreal lol, that's crazy !
No snow in southern Sweden, but snow in Athens. :O
Ελλάδα για παντα!!! I love my city... Athens!!! ♥️
Hello pretty
@@wolfgang9886 hello handsome
Jasu eva come stai
It must be nice to be amazed by snow. I live in Canada and it is like this half of the year.
That's pure insanity for Athens. Happens once/twice every 15-20 years.
@@thrylos32 IT snows Last year also in Athens.
@@l_k619 true. Back to back years. Last time before that was 2004,07
@@thrylos32 OK. Wow.
@@thrylos32 Didn't know that.
Wow, love seeing all this snow - could you send some here please! 😀
Every winter without fail it will snow (a lot) in Alpine regions throughout Greece and the big islands like Crete and Evia but to see so much of it in Athens city itself is amazing! I even heard sunny hot spots like Santarini and Mykonos got a dusting!
آسف ؛اكتب باللغة العربية حتى اتمكن من فهم النص ....
Snowfall looks so beautiful. We have snow here in Chicago too, about 4 to 6 inches and very cold
Ζηλεύω το χιονακι από Thessaloniki!!!!!!!!!
Αχ ποσο Βορρας γινανε! Και εμεις εδω ακομα περιμενουμε!
Beautiful snow fall 💗💗
I live in The UK ..We have Snow every year so you get used to it even though I don't like it cause in the North of England in winter it gets very cold
Such a beautiful city 😍
I love Greece
Thanks for this rare video
I didn't know it was rare to snow in Athens, I've seen it not with snow on RUclips, some points in Athens are beautiful.👍
You didn't know snow was rare in Athina???😯 Seriously? What planet do you live on and what grades did you have in Geography?
@@cornells.1727 it snows almost every year. this amount of snow though is rare
@@cornells.1727 Troll 🤣
@@ΑθανάσιοςΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ-θ7γ Funny, Thanase, huh? Well, I am glad that at least you smile, if I could make all my Greek brothers (or half-brothers I should say) smile, I would be ok with that! 😉
@@GioBall That's what I meant... the half inch you get otherwise and melts within hours doesn't really count... When I was a kid there were years without one single snowflake, only in the north of the country.
Many days of snow 😲
Greetings from Romania!
Salut nene :)
Hello pretty
Athens is so diverse! We had the worst heatwave in 2021 with 45 degrees for about a week and now heavy snow that hasn't fully melted yet after 4 days 🤗
It's called climate change dude, extreme weather events
@@lfior I'm not convinced.
Hello pretty
@@wolfgang9886 χαια
Hello, how are you doing? nice to meet you, where are you from?
For a country where everyday we have sun this is rare !
I live in Greece but in a higher altitude where every year we have snow.
In Athens though is really strange.
Love it. I live near Ambelokipi. Love itt
planting palm trees in Germany is the next Option, tropical weather been developing here for last 4 years!🤣
Oh it's so beautiful, build yourself a snow castle. Thank you for taking us on your expeditions . Snowball fight...
Wow, that's a lot of snow 🥶 great video Foss 😍 Thank you so much, take care ♥️
Seeing it for me living in Poland is so funny! Dont used to winter tyres, winter driving and snowing all day or days with minus degrees! Something what is just normal in my climate
Same as Istanbul. We had a lot of snow at the same time as you guys 👍🏻
Καλημέρα από την Αθήνα
Please upload more Greece videos.
ευχομαι και φετος 2024 να χιονισει ετσι
👍☃️👍
Foss, you didn't get enough rain in Turkey. Now you're having to deal with snow in Athens, Greece. From Rainman to Snowman. hope you're doing ok. All the best. 👍👍 Jim and Harriet.
Great! It is lake effect snow. So what happens is that very cold air from the north or north east blows over the warm sea and so snowshowers (big ones) appear and you get these amounts of snow.
Over here in NL we had one day and that was only in my province at the start of december and it was nothing like this. The winter, again, has been very mild. Last winter we had just 10 days with snow and day and night frost in february and snow (but without real cold) in january. I would love to see this over here but it is becoming more and more rare. HJave fun with it!
We dont have lake's.... Its grom the Aigean sea effect.... 50 C between sea and air!!!
@@zef27 it is called lake-effect snow. We have it here to, it is from the North Sea not exactly a lake either but that is how it is called. After the American Great Lakes, where the name (I think) was first used for these kind of snowshowers. So it is just a name for the Phenomenon.
Πολύ χιόνι!
Very bizarre to see such heavy, wet snow in Athens! I doubt whether any of the vehicles on the road have proper snow tires. Up here in northern Pennsylvania, we have plow trucks to clear the streets quickly when it snows, but Athens must be paralyzed! Good luck, and thanks for enduring the weather to show us your entertaining walks in interesting locales. Stay safe and healthy out there!
it really was
In The Netherlands all roads are immediately treated when even the slightest frost is expected. So that is really, really often. Snow can be treated with salt too, but it fails when it is -7 C or colder. We have snowploughs etc but they can't reach every single road. Most people have wintertyres or allseasons (which tend to be virtually as good as wintertyres, I have them) but the few that don't get stuck or cause accidents. In countries like Greece, where inlower areas snow is not so common I bet it causes a lot of trouble. On the other hand snow is not that exceptional in Athens. I have seen pictures of the Acropolis in snow more than once.
@@Serenoj69 It used to be really rare but the last couple of years it snows a lot, even in Athens. It's time to start taking measures as the ones you mentioned, since it seems the climate change is now super obvious here.
@@Serenoj69 i live in northeastern Turkey where it can even snow in summer. you are right salt means nothing when it is -20C. it got as low as -40C last winter and -35C this year. WE always drive on ice
@@SYldz67 yeah I know near Kars etc it is really cold because it is also really high. Much colder than where I live for sure. Winters have warmed up considerably over here in the last 30 years. Not a single winter has been severe in this century (we have cold, severe, very severe and extreme so severe is not even that cold). It is simply beyond belief nowadays to know that we have had months where the temperature simply failed to get above zero. So it was freezing, day and night the whole month (example february 1947). Or march months where from 10-20 march with -10 C. Not at night, but during the day. That is totally impossible now. I envy your climate!
it happened last year. and I can guarantee this is how it happened this year as well, and there were lightnings too during the blizzard, something really rare
NOT EVEN a single snowflake in Thessaloniki but down there it pouring!! FUCK!! I JUST WANT TO SEE some SNOW!!!
So beautiful
How often does Athens get snow like this? I live in Scotland and we've had 1 day of snow this year, just a couple of centimetres, we've not even had much frost, it's been like 7C every day for about 6 weeks.
It is the second year that there is so much snow in Athens. Both last year and this year the snow is heavy and many problems were created. However, as I read, it has been snowing in Athens for two consecutive years since 1938.
Greece is way south from Scotland but you have to understand that it is located under Russia and eastern Europe where winter is very cold!
It's very very rare. Last time there was a snowstorm so intense was 1938
@@ΘωμαςΛιακος-φ5π It’s far away from Russia but Balkans get cold because of cold winds that come from Russia sometimes
@@ΘωμαςΛιακος-φ5π Yeah, we are very far north, but because the UK is an island, we tend to get warmed by the sea so it's actually rare for us to get extreme cold, it does happen, but not very often. I think mainland Europe is like mainland USA, where they get what's know as continental weather, so like warm in the summer and cold in the winter, unless of course you are far south, then you just get hot summers and temperate winters. Still it's interesting to see this much snow in Athens.
Τέλεια 😃😃😃😍 δεν είναι
Nice
We need more co2
My city ❣️🤍
looks more like sweden than greece lol
HHARP Athens
Ma quanta...
Hi
❤️
I think it's the "global heating" they are talking about.
Hahahahaha hell yeah
In northern greece snow is common. Soon as these southern fairies cop.a blanket the whole country grinds to a halt.
don't forget northen greece is kind of balkans lol :))
@@LADmob yes it is indeed.
Hello, excellent video BUT as the title this is NOT snowfall from 2023 but from January 24th 2022 (just for the records)🙂
Oh yes! Cool commentators below in a strict tone tell us that Athenians are experienced in snow and the video, as it goes on, completely contradicts their comments!😅 Wonderful video!
Thanks for this. Everything seems so surreal. Reminds me of walking along a Grand Theft Auto scene. Good thing is no one is clubbing, bashing or shooting anyone. Anyway great video.
snow in greece is not rare phenomenon... Every year of my life in greece, it snows a lot. Greece is stereotyped to be a warm country that is not the case. Where i am from it gets -20 in the winter! Epirus!!
Woooow, now that's something new to me lol.
@@LADmob yea! north greece is worth exploring my friend!
Which smartphone you use?
Which camera do you have?
Ville pas equiper pour la neige c est normal. Pas de pneus neige.🤷♂️
My heart goes out to the earthquake victims and immigrants also parliaments guards.
It's good to get snow every so often. Kills the germs and I would think your place could use it since you have droughts there and fires. Enjoy!
😱 Yikes!!!
Where is the heavy snow....?
It's not Canada..
Even the Greek gods are not immune to the Most High sending natural disasters.
Snow is NOT a natural disaster
το χιονι ειναι το πιο ομορφο πραγμα
η ελλαδα ειναι η πιο ομορφη χωρα
ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΧΙΟΝΙΣΜΕΝΗ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Τhis snowfall even though not rare, came to show the incompetence of the greek gov where many people stranded in Attiki Odos motorways and dozens of homes left with no electricity for over 20 hours.
An utter chaos.
Wow,I like it. I realy love snowfalling . But I don't see snowfalling
Yes with the volcano 🌋 in Spain things will change. Just saying
You call that snow; come to nyc or up north like Buffalo, that was a piece of cake in Athens,Athenians they don't know how to drive in any amount of snow.
Yeah you're used to it though. What's your point?
@@ekfylobifteki the point is, they making a big deal, like it was the end of the world,stop acting like a bunch of babies,that's my point,like it or not.
@@georgegiannojas5651 it's just a video, nobody said it was an extreme situation.
no idea where you got that from..
Get over yourself
Heavy snow???????????????
Γελαει ο κοσμος
Αλλά τι είναι light snow? Μη ζηλεύεις αγαπε
Η Ελπίδα ήταν ο ορισμός του Heavy Snow, πράγματα που δεν θα ζήσεις ποτέ με τέτοια διάρκεια χιονιζόμενος μόνο με χαμηλό.
who said that snow is rare in greece XD
@b ???
Yeah but this isn't 2023.... Just changed the title for a few more views?
Yes for more views I changed the title
Heavy snow where exactly? Thats like 10 snowflakes. hahahaha..come to Finland to see proper heavy snow. lol
You just compared north Pole with Sahara desert :)
For your own knowledge in Athens is not snowing at all, what you see there is once in a moon time :)
@@LADmob @LADmob - UNSEEN Walks thats actually not correct. It does snow in Athens, in fact based on other Greeks I talked to, it used to snow much more frequently in Athens but now rarer due to climate change, but it does snow, if not in the center, then certainly in the suburbs. Maybe not heavy snow as described in your video tho. I should send you pics from our backyard from a month ago where everything. including the outdoor eating table is completely covered in snow. lol Its the same as these heats that Greece is experiencing now, it was never so hot during summer in the Balkans, now it is. Btw, Im from the Balkans originally. ;)
@@LADmob In Athens it snows quite regularly.Blizzards in 2002,2004,2006,20008,2021,2022.
Joke?
قبرص جزيرة تركية من الجنوب إلى الشمال، الاتراك سكنوا قبرص قبل الٱغريق...
Μα είσαι τόσο ανιστόρητος!!! Σε λυπάμαι!
⚠️ EXTREME BULLSHIT ALLERT ⚠️ تنبيه بولشيت شديد
Open a book you fool when the first Greek Tribes colonized the Cyprus about 1200BA the Turks it'snt exist even like a name in history...
@@ΒαγγεληςΝοτης باشنيان انت او فكتوريوس الٱغريقي....
@@مولودالمولدي false .
When cold air masses move across the Aegean Sea, the warm and moist air above the sea rises, cools, and condenses into clouds. As these clouds move towards the land, they release their moisture in the form of snow when the temperature is low enough. This phenomenon is known as the "sea-effect snow" or "maritime-effect snow" and it is similar to the effect which is often observed in regions with large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes region in North America. People in the comments say that this is not a heavy snowfall but they are wrong. According to the USA National Weather Service, a heavy snowfall is typically defined as a snowfall rate of at least one inch (2.54 cm) per hour, sustained for at least two hours. The snowfall rate of ''Elpida'' snowstorm exceeded 10cm per hour in some areas, leading to the accumulation of over 40cm of snow in parts of the city of Athens, especially in the eastern suburbs in less than 16 hours.
Sea-effect snow is not a rare phenomenon for the eastern parts of Greece, particularly in regions such as Euboia, Voiotia, and Attiki but the amount of snowfall can vary from year to year. Athens is surrounded by mountains which act as a natural barrier and provide a degree of protection from extreme weather events but the northern suburbs of Athens are located at higher elevations than the city center, and therefore they are more prone to snowfall.
@@snowstorm1936 yes! We also get lake effect,well sea effect snow in Eastern England & Scotland,if the conditions are perfect for it,& we get bitter Arctic or Siberian air on a NorthEasterly or Easterly wind crossing the North Sea. ❄️❄️☃️⛄ All East facing coasts of Europe get this sea effect snow,even places like Barcelona,now & then...but obviously the coasts further away from the East & North,get this less often than other areas.The Black Sea coast of Northern Türkiye,Istanbul included,& the coasts of Bulgaria & România get heavy sea effect snow from the Black Sea,usually at least twice per Winter. ❄️❄️☃️⛄