Bosnia Snow Surprises After Unusually Hot Weeks (PHOTOS)

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Sunbathing one day, snowstorm the next: Bosnians are getting whiplash from the latest crazy weather to hit the Balkans.

Weeks after Bosnians had stashed away their winter clothes and their memories of last winter's unbearably heavy snow, residents had to drag out the shovels Monday after waking up to a blanket of snow in the middle of an otherwise unusually hot May.

Some 50 remote villages in a mountainous area near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo lost power due to the snow.

The unseasonal weather followed a week of summer-like temperatures with 27 C (80.6 Fahrenheit) registered in Sarajevo on Saturday.

Temperatures hit 5 Celsius (41 Fahrenheit) on Monday, causing traffic jams as people struggled to get to work.

The cold spell is forecast to last until at least the middle of the week, when the snow is expected to be replaced by heavy rain.

Comments

[Kalikat]

03:07 PM on 05/15/2012

And so in the 1940's we were taught in school about these consquences of climate change. But today they aren't allowed to mention it in school.

[westcoastsc]

11:41 AM on 05/15/2012

This ruins crops. Say goodbye to all their fruit that comes from trees.

[KIVPossum]

02:44 PM on 05/14/2012

Meanwhile Moldova is having the most beautiful spring in years

[lareinemargot]

03:14 PM on 05/14/2012

I hope to go there one day. Most probably in spring so I hope it'll be a good one - can't stand summers in Europe.

[Simply The Lib]

11:15 AM on 05/14/2012

Weather in Bosnia is very strange last July while I was there the temperature was in the 90s one day and the next day it was in the 30s