Many cities welcome snowfall amid drought

Many provinces have welcomed the snowfall with joy though it has disrupted daily life and made transportation difficult, as the country has been waiting for months amid the driest winter in recent years.

The rain that started on late Jan. 28 in the high parts of Istanbul's Silivri district turned into snow, while the citizens who had been waiting for this moment for a long time recorded it with their mobile phones.

The snowfall that started in the country's northwest increased its effect nearer the Bolu Mountain, with the snow thickness in some areas reaching five centimeters. Highway teams conducted plowing and salting works at the road's mountain crossing.

The city center turned white with the snowfall that was effective on early Jan. 28 in the central Anatolian province of Sivas, where the snow thickness reached 15 centimeters in the winter sports center on Yıldız Mountain.

The air temperature drops to minus 1 degree Celsius in the city, where snowfall is expected to continue for a while, according to the data of the Turkish State Meteorological Service.

Separately, with the snow thickness reaching 30 centimeters in the Spil Mountain National Park in the southern province of Mersin, citizens from the surrounding provinces, especially Manisa and İzmir, flocked to the region.

Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP) teams left 500 kilograms of dry feed and 250 kilograms of vegetable and fruit residues in various areas for jades and wild animals such as wolves, foxes, rabbits, pigs and marten as they would have difficulty in finding food on the snow-covered mountain.

In Erdemli district, five people stuck in a car due to snowfall called a tow truck, which was also stuck in the snow. Thereupon, the stranded...