Greek mountain snow cover halved in past four decades due to regional warming

30 April 2026

The authors' research shows that Greece's highest mountains have lost half of their winter snow over the past four decades. Using a new model that reconstructs daily snow cover from satellite and climate data, they found a rapid and widespread decline driven mainly by rising temperatures. These changes fall outside the natural variability of the climate and highlight growing risks for water resources in Mediterranean mountain regions, due to snow droughts.

Please also read the press release by University of Cambridge.

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