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On a yearly basis snow falls in the center of Madrid, but it doesn't really sticks on roads. Well, the snowstorm that recently affected Central Spain has wrecked havoc in Madrid. The heaviest snow fall in 40 years making this the snowstorm of the 21st century!
You should see my second to last video. It shows multiple trees in the streets of Madrid that either fell or had a branch fall while caught on video. There is even shots of entire streets where the shade trees were all affected with branches fell on top of cars and even breaking into apartment windows. Crazy!
Look at this. I took the screenshots from the second to last video in the first post.
This is the exact spot on the same street in Google Street View. If you notice the building on the upper right quadrant and the street light fixture, it's the same one in the first printscreen.
Look at this. I took the screenshots from the second to last video in the first post.
This is the exact spot on the same street in Google Street View. If you notice the building on the upper right quadrant and the street light fixture, it's the same one in the first printscreen.
Looks strange to have snow in Spain.
Because the country is too hot and sunny.
And more like a desert from Arabia.
Your swarthy blood must not be used to it. Hahaha.
True, but the average British in Spain isn't roaming around in Asturias or in Basque Country or even near the Pyrenees. They are in places like Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol. Many sections of the coasts there is virtually an extension of England in Spain. lol The density of date palms goes hand in hand with the British "invasion." It's perfectly normal for Spain to conjure images in the UK of palm trees and beaches, that's what many British see of Spain anyway. Spain is sort of the Florida of Europe and the British take advantage of that like few other Europeans do! I personally like better the Meditteranean side of Spain and yes, the weather has something to do with that.
In some ways its like Mexico and Americans. Many imagine all of Mexico to be a tropical paradise because that's what they saw in Cancún or Puerto Vallarta. Little do they know that most of Mexico doesn't have a tropical weather even in places that are in the tropics. Wearing a jacket and shivering due to cold is not something they associate with Mexico.
I get the impression that there are more British people in Spain than Spaniards in the UK. Plus, the way the population density works in Spain is that the population is heavily concentrated along its coasts and then an island of humanity in the center surrounding Madrid. In the UK most people live away from the coast and with those ugly beaches and horrible wet and humid weather there, who can blame them?
I'll take sunny Spain any day. Sun, palms, and sand sounds good to me. Add beautiful cities and nice people (though Europeans in general tend to be more reserved thsn people in the Americas, I'll chalk that to the weather in many places) and its easy to see why Spain is either 1 or 2 most visited country in the world. Did I mention that the Spaniards are overall a good looking people and tend to be fit? Yeah...
True, its odd in a way but the Gulf Stream means that snow is actually quite rare in many parts of the UK and the only ski resorts in the UK are in the Scottish mountains. I worked (until Covid) with four Brazilians and they're 'itching' to see snow but we haven't had a snowfall thats settled here in 8 years or so, we did have a bit of quite heavy snow out the sky about 3 years ago but it never settled - it was enough to get Ciro (one of the Brazilians) excitedly gazing out the window like an excitable Labrador (if he had a tail he would have been wagging it!)
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