Frozen Turkey, snow havoc in southeast Europe

Rather impressive. Just hoping it will come our way and end the endless grey muck…

https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1486270086218403840?t=uwOb-Z3C91F32GEsYp-DlQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/StormchaserUKEU/status/1485728103213289475?t=uwOb-Z3C91F32GEsYp-DlQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1485902359033229314?t=uwOb-Z3C91F32GEsYp-DlQ&s=19

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‘Climate crisis’ latest: too much snow and severe cold at night in parts of the Mediterranean region.
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Europe’s busiest airport shut down in Istanbul on Monday while schools and vaccination centres closed in Athens as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of the eastern Mediterranean, causing blackouts and traffic havoc, reports Phys.org.

The closure of Istanbul Airport — where the roof of one of the cargo terminals collapsed under heavy snow, causing no injuries — grounded flights stretching from the Middle East and Africa to Europe and Asia.

Travel officials told AFP it marked the glass-and-steel structure’s first shutdown since it replaced Istanbul’s old Ataturk Airport as the new hub for Turkish Airlines in 2019.

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