As a child, Giannis Stathas remembers being snowed in for days at a time in Arachova, a village famous for its ski resort and long known as a winter playground for Greeks.
“We couldn’t go to school because of the snow,” said Stathas, now mayor of Arachova and the surrounding area. “We might have been stuck at home for two days without being able to go out because of the snow.”
“Now we don’t see that here any more.”
Stathas says snowfall on Mount Parnassos at an altitude of 2,400 meters is what once fell at 300 meters.
And new findings from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute confirm the mayor’s observations.
