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And it wasn't a particularly mild winter. Not the worst, but certainly nowhere near the best.

At least for Germany it was very mild. You could've worn a T-Shirt on New Year's Eve. Its average temperatures may not stand out among the last 5 winters because they were all particularly mild, but compared to the past 50 years, it absolutely was standing out.

Europe is large enough that the weather isn't uniform.

Surprisingly so (but then again, mostly not), but that comment specifically mentioned Germany.

And for Europe as a whole: Winter temperatures in 2022 were around 1°C above average, ranking amongst the ten warmest winters. [1]

As far as I understand, that's the top 10 out of the past 170 years.

[1] https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2022-was-year-clima...

Was very, very mild.

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