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Not to nitpick and assuming you're living in the northern hemisphere, winter has not officially arrived; we're still in the fall/autumn season.

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It's a little too nitpicky IMO to point this out (not to say you were trying to be though, all good), because what people are shorthanding here is that it's "unseasonably warm" still, and that's a good thing.

"Winter so far has been mild" is not a confusion on their part that it won't get any colder, just a misstatement. Autumn has been unseasonably warm, and the difference in parts of Europe between the two isn't as severe as here in the US.

I like how you're effectively nitpicking my seemingly nitpicking comment in defense of anti-nitpicking :)

It's nitpicks all the way down! :D

In fact It’s unseasonably hot currently. Nobody is using heaters at all I suspect.

Where do you live?

Same here, northern Germany, it has been unusual warm, we haven't started to heat this year yet because of it

(though I might not be impacted as hard later also as the city is producing biogas and is using PtH).

Strikingly warm in Sweden as well. Geothermal heat pump does work a few hours per day, anyway. It drops far below 10 degrees celsius at night and my house is not modern enough to manage comfortable temperature with only waste energy as source.

Yes we're lucky to live in a modern house.

Chiming in from Poland. There have been a few cold nights in the last week or two, but otherwise it's autumn-level warm. Today in particular was unexpectedly warm, early summer levels.

Slovakia, we didn't start heating yet, a few years ago that would be unthinkable. Looking at the forecast, we won't be heating for at least another 10 days.

Which is good, isn't it?

At least the energy crisis has been averted for the first month of the autumn season in Europe and the outlook looks promising going into the second month esp for households in light of rising costs and soaring inflation.

Good right now in the energy crisis, not so good long-term when higher temperatures won't be matched by more rain, which they probably won't, and we will slowly turn into a savannah.

Same in Berlin

The south of Spain.

Yeah, sorry.

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