The Airports Authority spent almost 4 Million this last winter in training staff to deal with adverse weather conditions such as snow
http://www.tumbit.com/news/articles/4424...
Despite what you may read here, t does snow but only in certain areas and at certain altitudes.
Granada for example has the Sierra Nevada mountains which has winter long skiing opportunities. The snow does last for a while too. I drove past it 3 weeks ago and there was still snow on the peaks. However when I drove by this weekend just gone, there was none.
Snow does fall on the beaches also. Not a lot and not all the beaches get it, but around Valencia, Barcelona, Balearic Islands and some others do get a light to moderate dusting of snow.
Madrid often gets heavy snow storms throughout the winter, particularly in the surrounding towns and mainly higher up the mountains. Madrid itself is quite high above sea level and quite exposed hence the reason why it snows there often.
Does it?
Of course it does. Perhaps not on the beach but certainly in the mountains. You can regularly expect snow on any mountain in the winter months over elevation 1 000 m.
Spain does get snow. The likelihood of snow depends largely on where you are in the country. Spain's mountainous regions are the most likely regions for snow (which is lucky for the ski resorts!). Andalusia has little (apart from in the Sierra Nevada mountains) and Madrid and Salamanca are usually too dry (which means beautiful blue skies even when it is freezing! The north coast on the whole is too warm - you get more rain here than snow. However, when snow does hit this region, as it did in January 2006, expect it in huge quantities (several feet).
During the end of each year in Real Madrid, it is usually damp, cold, wet and grey there... However I will never forget my December short Stay over Versailles, when snow was falling in the morning and gardens were blanketed with a shiny coat of Paris snow....
2 years ago it snowed at the end of october in Majorca but mainly on the mountains or the north of spain
Yes, if course it does!
Madrid gets a few good snowstorms every year, there are mountains, and ski resorts, and one of the areas had a bid in for a winter Olympics, recently.
You want proof? Search "winter in Segovia", "Sierra Nevada" in Flickr.
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