Blizzards

A Mediterranean cyclone will pass through the country. The weather will be mostly cloudy, windy and rainy. During the day, the wind will be oriented from the west-northwest and cold air will invade with it.

Waves crash against a sea wall during a windy day in the southern Athens district of Flisvos. Temperatures will drop Friday across the country, with snowfall expected in mountainous areas of the northwest. [AP]

The minimum temperatures today will be between 5°C and 13°C, and the maximum - between 14°C and 20°C.

It will remain windy, with a very strong southerly wind. Cloudiness will be more often significant and there will be rain in isolated places, mainly on the southern side of the mountains.

After an unseasonably warm start to the winter, Slovenia finally received noteworthy snowfall on 16 January. While children and winter sport enthusiasts were delighted, motorists were not in the least. Starting in the early morning hours, heavy snowfall wreaked havoc on morning rush-hour traffic and disrupted power supply.

During the next 24 hours it will be mostly cloudy. There will be light rainfall in places, mainly in Eastern Bulgaria. Rain will mix with snow by midday, with icy conditions in northeastern areas.

Heavy rain and storm disrupted traffic and paralyzed daily life in the southern province of Antalya on Jan. 11.

Antalya, one of the 11 provinces for which the Turkish State Meteorological Service issued an "orange alert," has been seriously affected by torrential rain and storms since Jan. 11.

Meteorologists have issued a torrential rain warning for some western provinces while expecting strong storms in the country's south.

Today, cloudiness will increase over the entire country, and rain will begin mainly in Western Bulgaria.

Today before noon there will be fog or low clouds in the flat part of the country. The prevailing minimum temperatures will be between minus 2°C and 3°C, in Sofia - around minus 2°C.

The country's eastern provinces have been battling heavy snowfall that has already blocked roads in remote regions, as snow depth exceeds 20 centimeters in the high-altitude sites of Van and Erzurum.