NZ Weather Forum

Posted: **Fri 15/10/2010 03:52**

about 1 meter of snow after temperatures till -17Â° just outside the city...

photos taken just few kms from milan:

Posted: **Fri 15/10/2010 07:10**

Thankyou, Davide - a metre is a lot of snow! and -17 is very cold! What altitude is Milan?

Posted: **Fri 15/10/2010 07:26**

Ciao! lot of snow back then.

Posted: **Sat 16/10/2010 00:47**

Orion wrote:Thankyou, Davide - a metre is a lot of snow! and -17 is very cold! What altitude is Milan?

milan is just 122 m

yes, it was a really cold winter...

Posted: **Sat 16/10/2010 01:19**

Michael wrote:Ciao! lot of snow back then.

i hope!!

Posted: **Sat 23/10/2010 17:39**

Great photos.

Posted: **Tue 26/10/2010 06:40**

wow

Posted: **Tue 26/10/2010 08:31**

i was told that that winter in the po valley (the plain of milan, in north italy) the lowest temperature reached was -28.5Â° !!!!!!!!!

north italy:

po valley:

the point M is Milan
the point P is the place where the temperature reached -28.5 degrees

Posted: **Tue 26/10/2010 08:39**

What is the source of such cold temperatures? - altitude - latitude - prevailing winds or lack of them - ? - that's extremely cold!

Posted: **Wed 27/10/2010 09:49**

Orion wrote:What is the source of such cold temperatures? - altitude - latitude - prevailing winds or lack of them - ? - that's extremely cold!

i wasn't born yet but i heard that cold air from russia hit the whole italy (-20Â° at 850 hPa) than the snow on the ground with its effect...

Milan winter 1985-1986