Related question: Are there places recently that have gone a year without winter, due to climate change?
https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/wild-arctic-weather-siberia-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-warm-winter-has...
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-lawmaker-blames-climate-wea...
> "Alexei Zhuravlyov, a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, blamed a secret U.S. "climate weapon" for the temperature anomaly that has resulted in unusually warm temperatures this season.
> The Moscow Times reported that Zhuravlyov appeared on the Govorit Moskva radio station on Tuesday, where he said that the United States was purposefully using technology to warm Russia in order to create a climate catastrophe to destabilize the country. "If [Russia's permafrost] melts now, it will be a disaster.... The Americans know this, and they're testing this weapon," he said."
It's worth thinking about political instability as an inevitable follow-on to climate instability.
FFS, the fact that a significant number of people are probably ignorant enough to fall for such propaganda during an age in which Wikipedia and SciHub exist is a travesty.
For all history, we've been used to treating the land as fixed, and borders as flexible. But the changing climate is about to make a lot of previously habitable land unlivable, and open up some previously uninhabitable areas. The countries of the world have drawn their borders on a map, but now it's the map itself that's about to change under them. Don't you think there will be pressure to readjust those borders?
There are places that usually have quite obvious "winter" such as places in southern Sweden that this year went without any winter at all in the meteorological sense. Even being able to say that with certainty while its still Februrary is quite unusual, normally some of the coldest days are in februrary. I often skate on the lakes in Stockholm well into march.
It's like october continuing whole winter and it's raining all the time.
Feb 2020, max 12, min -8, avg +3 https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/latvia/riga/historic?mon...
Feb 2019, max 12, min -10, avg +1. Yeah, was a crappy winter too but nothing like this year. We could had snow with kids ocassionaly.
Feb 2018 max +2, min -21, avg -7...
Some people celebrate it. I personally hate it. It still gets cold occasionally, but jumps back up suddenly. It's February and for the past three days it's been almost 10°C. (makes for bad outdoor ice skating :P)
When I was a kid it was normal to have snow up to an adult male's knees. My grandfather has stories of snow drifts covering streetlamps.
Talked to a 91 yr old and 79 yr old ladies - they say first time we have such a "winter".
So we'll still have to see if we manage to escape winter this year.
Which has happened in large parts of Europe this year, as the traditional conditions for announcing the start of "meteorogical winter" (which, for my area, is the daily mean temperatures being below 0 °C (32 °F) for five consecutive days) have not happened at all; we've had weather that matches "late autumn" all through from October till now.
Contrast a 1-day of snow winter with those of past harsh winters and you can easily deduce that 'wind and rain' isn't really a winter anymore.
Typically winters here have a week or two of temperatures reaching -25c in January, with it averaging around -10c the rest of the season. This winter the coldest it reached was -10c, most of the time it has been around 0c. We haven't even had proper snow that has settled.
Nobody I've spoken to (i.e. grandparents) remembers a winter like this before.
As an individual season I guess it's hard to tie it directly to climate change though.