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:
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!