On Christmas and New Year it will rain everywhere in Bulgaria, and a lot. The snow will be in the mountains, beautiful and Christmassy. In Sofia and in the lower parts it will be damp, rainy and muddy, said climatologist Prof. Georgi Rachev in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio.
Tomorrow, December 24, "it will be rain and snow, and more rain":
"In Sofia on Christmas there will be no snow, on Christmas Eve the snow will be symbolic and it will be wet, if there is any, because there is no cold."
However, on December 27 there will be snow because:
"On December 26 and 27, a grandiose anticyclone is forming from the northeast. There will be colder air over Bulgaria and then snow may be a fact both at low altitude and in Sofia. Then Simeonovo and the Barovo districts of Vitosha will be covered with snow, and above 1200 m it will simply overwhelm them, it will really overwhelm them."
According to Prof. Rachev, there will be a lot of snow on Vitosha, Borovets, Pamporovo, Semkovo and Bansko. "By December 27, the new snow cover should exceed at least half a meter", the climatologist predicts.
He commented that our seasons "are here, but winter is becoming Greek:
"The Greek winter is already here in our country, there is no practical difference between the Petrich-Sandansko field and Drama. Serres and Drama have the same climate as Petrich and Sandanski. The difference is that low temperatures can occur in Petrich and persist for a long time. The reason is that from Belasitsa and the Rhodope Mountains we are isolated from the warm Aegean Sea."