Whoever ever saw a palm tree covered in snow, a beach covered in snow – New England and all the like do not count…it’s normal over there – raise a hand. A place where mild temperatures are the rule even in winter, where real cold days you can count on your fingertips all winter long, Central Italy has been hit by a wave of cold and snow that people who are well in their fifties do not remember having seen in their lives. 30 centimeters – roughly 15 inches – of snow where for decades there was none, half a meter – 25” – where you usually get 10 centimeters, and that’s not every winter at all – and snow that reaches man’s height both where snow is rather common and where it is definitely not, like university town of Urbino or Federico Fellini’s Rimini: this is Northern/Central Italy in February 2012.
It snowed in Sardinia, where the word ‘snow’ does not even belong to people’s vocabulary, so mild it always is! The major snowfall happening right now in Italy is anything but normal. To people who know their way around the Boot, certain location names would never have been associated with that amount of snow up to now, if with snow to begin with. It’s simply unbelievable. Beach chairs tucked in a corner and waiting for summer to return are now literally buried in snow, something that was just not expected, ever. Some say it’s 2012: the world is expected to end. But, from those images, it looks like it’s only happening in a small European peninsula.
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