Rare snow covers Acropolis of Athens in dazzling white blanket

[Judi Lynn]

By Stephanie Pappas - Live Science Contributor 3 hours ago



The ancient Acropolis in Athens was covered in white during a rare snowfall on Feb. 16, 2021.
(Image: © ANTONIS NIKOLOPOULOS/Eurokinissi/AFP via Getty Images)

Unusual weather blanketed the Acropolis with snow on Tuesday (Feb. 16), turning the iconic site in Athens into a scene from a holiday card.

An aerial image of the complex, which is perched on a fortified hill above Athens, shows the Parthenon against a backdrop of white. The smaller Erechtheum, a temple dedicated to the deities Athena and Poseidon, is also visible.

Snow is a rare sight in Athens, but much of Europe has been experiencing unusually frigid temperatures in the past week. According to the Associated Press, workers at the Eiffel Tower in France had to use a blowtorch to melt ice collecting on the monument. Significant snowstorms also hit the United Kingdom and much of Eastern Europe as a series of low-pressure systems brought cold Arctic air southward, where it collided with moist, warmer air over the continent.

In Athens, some residents dealt with power outages and the shutdown of public transportation as wet, heavy snow fell. Others broke out their skis on the cities' hills, according to the AP.

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[Warpy]

1. I read an article last week about Moscow being buried in snow this year

and the pictures looked like one of those bad years in Boston.

Northern Europe has been clobbered.

We got another six inches of the stuff here in the high desert today but lucky for us, this storm was warmer and it's mostly off pavement except patches of black ice.