Extreme Weather in your City

In Sarajevo it depends on the season.

In the Spring and Fall there is a lot of flooding across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sarajevo is no exception. Spring flooding is caused by melting snow in the mountains around the city, and Fall flooding is caused by the heavy rains that always come during that season.



And then there's those Balkan winters.

Often there won't be a single snowfall until well into December, but once it starts... it doesn't stop. Every storm drops roughly a meter onto the city and there simply is nowhere to put it. Everything grinds to a halt, often for two or three days at a time.





Because most of Bosnia's river's originate from hot Springs, we also get - all year long - a lot of this:



Sarajevo is down there somewhere below the Mount Trebevic communications tower. You can see the same tower in the first picture above, if you want to get an idea where you're looking.


Edited by Mila

I still remember the January 1998 Ice Storm in Montreal. It was the worst ice storm the region had ever seen. Everything was frozen solid. Even the birds were frozen, along with the tree branches on which the were standing! We didn't have electricity for 2 weeks...

This is how snow get cleared in Beijing!!!

Originally posted by Mila A few more pics of the fog in Sarajevo, these are taken this week.

What's so extreme about those?

The city looks quiet peaceful and normal.

Edited by Barış

Is that fog or smog, because every major Russian and Chinese cities has smog like 300 days of every year