More snow expected today across Spain – even on Mediterranean beaches
Friday, January 20, 2017 @ 5:37 PM
SNOW and high winds are expected across practically the whole of mainland Spain and the Balearics today (Thursday), and it is likely residents on the Mediterranean coast will still be building snowmen on the beach.
Weather warnings were issued for Alicante and Valencia yesterday and have continued into today as temperatures overnight ranged from -1ºC to -10.1ºC inland and 2ºC down to -2ºC on the coast.
The first cold snap of winter 2016-2017 led to forecasts of snow even at sea-level, but few residents took this as literally as it turned out to be – in Dénia (pictured above left and below right) and Jávea, in the north of the province of Alicante, four inches (10 centimetres) of snow coated the towns and the beaches.
Countless locals took photos of unprecedented scenes of a thick carpet of white covering the landscape, the sand, their swimming pool terraces and orange and lemon trees.
The last time snow fell – and laid – on the beach in Dénia or Jávea was in February 1983, or 34 years ago.
Likewise in the city of Murcia, further south, snow had not been seen lying thick on the streets since that same year.
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