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So, as the nordic countries have experienced a cold winter this year, we are destined for a hot summer in europe?

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Besides the very northern parts it hasn't been cold. Spring flowers bloomed last week in Denmark.

It was pretty cold in Oslo and that is not very northern.

Weather =|= climate. Or one cold day doesn't make winter. Nor does one hot day make summer.

>Nor does one hot day make summer.

You're not from the UK.

Depends on your definition of summer: if you apply your expectations from an August holiday in southern France to August in the UK, that is your fault!

>Nor does one hot day make summer.

You're not from the UK.

E.g. In Poland this has been the warmest February on record.

In what used to be a snow-secure village in Bavarian alps, we had 12 degrees last week.

Same for Romania, or close to the record, anyway. I don't remember any month of February where we had 20 degrees Celsius in mid-February, and I'm in my 40s.

That applies in both directions and that was a response to someone saying it was warm in Copenhagen. I definitely do not doubt climate change but a warn winter in Copenhagen or a cold one in Oslo/Stockholm isn't climate, that is weather.

Its 6 degrees in Oslo right now - in February.

didn't oslo always been warm bc of ocean currents?

Ocean currents and winds, but January and February have traditionally been the coldest months.

I was posting it because there was -20 during winter. But now I checked [0] and it seems that anomalies are even further north.

[0] https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Stockholm was cold this winter and I would not say we are very northern.

It might have felt colder than usual since there were a few really cold days and the years prior were very warm, but...

December 2023 in Stockholm was pretty much _average_

https://www.smhi.se/polopoly_fs/1.203578.1706190685!/image/t...

And January a bit below average:

https://www.smhi.se/polopoly_fs/1.204720.1708930291!/image/t...

February is on track on being above average with a record early spring.

Here in Lithuania we had one day below -20c this winter. Usually we have at least one or two weeks like that. Now the snow has melted and it's spring, feels around 6 weeks too early.

We had a handful of extreme cold days, but they were compressed in-between a late arrival of the winter and a too warm and early spring.

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