Heavy snowfall blankets south-east Europe & Anatolia

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 17 January 2022 from 08:22:42 to 08:25:42 UTC
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Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 20 January 2022 at 09:13:11 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 24 January 2022 from 07:39:54 to 08:44:24 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 27 January 2022 from 08:02:21 to 09:06:49 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Snow, season, precipitations, weather, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (17.01.2022) - By mid-January, snow was limited to mountain range and parts of the Anatolian plateau.
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Fig. 2 - S3 SLSTR (20.01.2022) - Three days later, it can be seen snow cover continued to progress slowly in Anatolia.
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Fig. 3 - S3 SLSTR (24-27.01.2022) - It accelerated brutally when plains of large swaths of south-east Europe and almost all Turkey got snow capped on 24 January.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (20.01.2022) - Athens, plains of Eubea & Attica regions were snow-free 4 days before 35cm fell on 24 January.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (14.01.2022) - Completely white 10 days later, only relief was snow capped in north-west Turkey on this image.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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