Heavy Snow In Madrid 01/09/09 (9th Jan)

[MeteoMadrid]

The last heavy snow (up to 10cm) was in February of 2006 with 10/12cm

Yesterday in Madrid (10/15cm):

Bye british friends!

[Snow Cat]

Great photos. Looks more like New York in winter than Madrid.

[BARRY]

I soooooooo jealous, nice pic's

[johnholmes]

thanks for those meteo, many on here would love their town/city to look like Madrid in those photos, and to have its heat in the summer!

[Beverley Lass]

Very pretty snowy scenes there,

thanks for showing us them.

BL

[MeteoMadrid]

Thank you guys! hehe.

The last heavy snowfall was three years ago (26th februry of 2006), it does not snow every days like that hehe.

Snow days for year in Madrid 4/5 days.

[Beverley Lass]

I think the heavy falling snow one with the

red umbrella would make a fab Xmas card

BL

[03jtrickey]

I just read about this on the BBC news, and I was thinking - why when we're so much further north and endure rubbish wet summers can't we get a proper winter - with more snow than even in Spain?! Even my cousins in Corpus Christi in Texas had a five inch snow event on Christmas Day in 2004! Makes me wish I could migrate south sometimes, they get it all :-)

Anyway those are some lovely pictures in real heavy snow. The red umbrella picture captures it best for me, it has real artistic merit, good composition. Well done!

[stormchaser1]

Nice pictures

thanks for sharing

nigel

[Stratos Ferric]

Thank you guys! hehe.

The last heavy snowfall was three years ago (26th februry of 2006), it does not snow every days like that hehe.

Snow days for year in Madrid 4/5 days.

Great pics: is that the park down by the Prado? Brought back memories of walking through there - along that very same straight path if I'm not mistaken - in 40C heat (at midnight!!!) in July 1988 (I think).

[shuggee]

Superb - hope you are enjoying it!

[MeteoMadrid]

Great pics: is that the park down by the Prado? Brought back memories of walking through there - along that very same straight path if I'm not mistaken - in 40C heat (at midnight!!!) in July 1988 (I think).

Hi guy!

40º in midnight is imposible hehe, perhaps in Rabat or Argel, but in Madrid is imposible hehe.

The warm record in Madrid is 40,0º (20th august of 1993). The night temperatures in Madrid are under 20º in Summer.

I just read about this on the BBC news, and I was thinking - why when we're so much further north and endure rubbish wet summers can't we get a proper winter - with more snow than even in Spain?! Even my cousins in Corpus Christi in Texas had a five inch snow event on Christmas Day in 2004! Makes me wish I could migrate south sometimes, they get it all :-)

Hehehe, friend, The snow is not rare in Spain, is typical in winter.

Thank you!

[Yeti]

Bonitas fotos, esa del paraguas me gusta. ^^el no dijo que no nieve en Madrid - dijo que no es justo que no nieve más en su pueblo haha pero vamos es una exageración de las grandes

[James M]

Great pics MM, it makes me very jealous , to see that much snow again *sigh*

I just read about this on the BBC news, and I was thinking - why when we're so much further north and endure rubbish wet summers can't we get a proper winter - with more snow than even in Spain?! Even my cousins in Corpus Christi in Texas had a five inch snow event on Christmas Day in 2004! Makes me wish I could migrate south sometimes, they get it all :-)

Well the way I see it, we're on an island in the Atlantic so we don't have a large land land mass to cool us down like your cousins do and those in Europe and more exposed to Atlantic influences, plus we have more of a direct influence from the gulf stream I think, but it is unfair though you're right

[J10]

Meteo Madrid, Thank for posting the lovely snow photos, I have changed the header of the thread, we tend to have the date notation dd/mm/yy, and by putting 9th Jan, this clarifies it. Sorry to be a pain, and them those snowy photos coming, even if it does make me jealous.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Amazing, excellent photos.

London can't get that depth of snow and look how much further north it is.

If the UK was surrounded with land we would do much better.

Thanks for sharing those, I agree about the red umbrella photo, very artistic and very good composition :lol:

[J07]

I bet the Madrid altitude helps also. Wikipedia claims 700m ASL, which really isn't much altitude, but in a dry continental climate the lapse rates will be steeper and it becomes more significant.

[londonsnow]

great pics, just reminds us that spain is not all about sun and heat ie the costas. when spains capital gets so much snow i feel a bit short changed here in englands! i agree with others the red umbrella pic is brilliant

[Beverley Lass]

Looking again .. the original 'red umbrella pic' that

we all have praised is no longer there (for me anyway)

Maybe you are now protecting your image and will be using it as a

card or to sell ?

BL

[Koppite]

Great pics, thanks for sharing. Wouldn't it be lovely to have snowy conditions like that more often here.

[reef]

Lovely pictures.

The disappointing thing is that we havent seen that much snow here since January 2004 - so 5 years now!

[Don]

Excellent photos Meteo. Certainly nice to look at, especially now that the milder atlantic weather is sweeping in after our long cold spell!

[tom_f123]

Super pics, very jealous

[MeteoMadrid]

Thank you for the comments!

[Albion Snowman]

That puts a lot of the UK to shame with amount of snowfall! Fantastic and unusual scenes! Well done for snapping them!