Spain Under Snow 10-01-2010. -23º And Snow

[MeteoMadrid]

Hi British friends!!!, This year, your winter is SO GOOD!!. I could see in Spanish TV news the dramatic landscapes of your winter!!, SO GOOD!. UK is so amazing.

Well, in Spain this winter is a bit good, the temperatures are sometimes SO cold, but in sometimes are warm (like today).

In important cities of North Spain had a temperatures totally extremes. -20º and -25º (Record is -32º, February of 1956). Well...Córdoba, and Sevilla saw the Snow!

As you can see, Spain is a country with extreme contrasts.

Well, that set of images are from Madrid (light/medium snowfall of 10-01-2010 5cm):

Burgos (200.000 inhabitants, Cold sttepes from centre/north Spain 880masl)

Pamplona (198.000 inhabitants, 400masl, North Spain)

Snow in the beach (San Sebastián, North of Spain)

Misc. Snowfall in valleis from Andalucia (Sevilla, Córdoba...)

Greatins from Spain!! B)

Edited January 16, 2010 by MeteoMadrid

[johnholmes]

thank you for those lovely photographs and pleased you are enjoying your winter

[Rob]

wow i never knew spain got so cold

[Beverley Lass]

Great photos, thanks very much.

BL :lol:

[paul tall]

Snow in Seville!

[MeteoMadrid]

Snow in Seville!

Yes, Sevilla saw Snow over fourty or fourty five minutes.

Records in Sevilla:

Tem. max. absoluta (ºC) 46.6 (23 jul 1995)

Tem. min. absoluta (ºC) -5.5 (12 feb 1956)

The last heavy snowfall in Sevilla was in 1956 with 15cm of Snow.

All land of Spain has saw the Snow, of course in the beaches the snow is very strange.

Thank you for the replies!

[03jtrickey]

Wonderful pics, thanks for sharing.

Those seem impressively low temperatures, colder that we've recorded in the UK this winter! -22.3 I think was the minimum in Altnaharra, Scotland.

[coldfingers]

Hi Meteo Madrid

My niece, (Spanish father English mother) absolutely loves snow and this is her 2nd winter in Madrid. She will be very happy judging from the photos.

many thanks for sharing them.

[sunny scunny]

wow some excellent snow scenes, thanks for sharing

[Guest North Sea Snow Convection]

Wonderful pictures - thanks for showing us these

Incredible to think of the snow in southern Spain. It is not uncommon in the north of the country, but down there - amazing!

[Mark Bayley]

Some great pictures :lol: !!

[damianslaw]

Snow on the beach at San Sebastian shows the depth of cold, quite astonishing, given the southerly location and the relative warmth of the Bay of Biscay. I know coastal parts of NE Spain are prone to snow when there is a cold NE blast, but not the north coast of Spain - unusual indeed.

[SteveB]

Looks like Spain has done well this Winter too.

[MeteoMadrid]

Snow on the beach at San Sebastian shows the depth of cold, quite astonishing, given the southerly location and the relative warmth of the Bay of Biscay. I know coastal parts of NE Spain are prone to snow when there is a cold NE blast, but not the north coast of Spain - unusual indeed.

Well...the coast of NE of Spain..is not strange to see the Snow. San Sebastián in the bay of Vizcaya is the most cold coast city in Spain..because it is nearly to the continent (more extreme).

I remember heavy snowfalls in San Sebastian...in 1996 more than 30cm...in 1986 more than 30cm in 2005 more than 15cm.

The only strange thing in this cold spell, it has been the Snowfall in Seville and Cordoba.

-23º in Spain is normal in the cold Steppes...the Record is -32º.

This winter is normal....a bit cold..but this week is so warm with temperatures in Madrid like 8º or 9º (+4º)

Incredible to think of the snow in southern Spain. It is not uncommon in the north of the country, but down there - amazing

Yes....but no...Spain has a so dificult clime..In the south the Snow is not strange over 600masl (many land of the south)

My niece, (Spanish father English mother) absolutely loves snow and this is her 2nd winter in Madrid. She will be very happy judging from the photos.

hehehe yes, but the last year was a so good...15/20cm in the center of Madrid (15/20 cm in the center of Madrid is so strange, the last was in 1997 with 12cm in the centre. hehehe in Spain the British are so welcome in Madrid!

Those seem impressively low temperatures, colder that we've recorded in the UK this winter! -22.3 I think was the minimum in Altnaharra, Scotland

Yes my girlfriend is Scottish (from Penicuik, Edinburgh)...She has been in Madrid for a one week in January...She saw: "Oh my god..I don´t understand..Snow and freezing temperatures in Madrid!" hehehe Typical topic of Spain...like Spain is a desert (Spain is the third european country with more forests, with 58%), Spain warm, All time Siesta and beach hehehehe.

Ancient winters were winters..My mother remember Snowfalls that 50 or 60cm in 60´s....and my brother in the firsts years of 80´s..when the Snowfalls in Madrid were Snowfalls with 15/20cm...Now the Winters are a bit warm..

Greatins from the warm and tropical Spain hehehe