'Feels like summer': warm winter breaks temperature records in Europe

[groundloop]

Source: Reuters

Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices.

Hundreds of sites have seen temperature records smashed in the past days, from Switzerland to Poland to Hungary, which registered its warmest Christmas Eve in Budapest and saw temperatures climb to 18.9 degrees Celsius (66.02°F) on Jan 1.

In France, where the night of Dec. 30/31 was the warmest since records began, temperatures climbed to nearly 25C in the southwest on New Year's Day while normally bustling European ski resorts were deserted due to a lack of snow.

Czech Television reported some trees were starting to flower in private gardens, while Switzerland's office of Meteorology and Climatology issued a pollen warning to allergy sufferers from early blooming hazel plants.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/feels-like-summer-warm-winter-breaks-temperature-records-europe-2023-01-04/

[tblue37]

1. 25C is 77F!

[mountain grammy]

2. Kind of makes one worry about what summer will "feel like"

[oioioi]

4. predicted headline - "Feels like Hell"

[Lonestarblue]

3. Well, at least people aren't freezing to death because of Putin's illegal war.

Though summer temperatures may be unbearable if this trend holds up.

[oldsoftie]

7. Putin was counting on miserably cold Europeans. Something else he's failed at!

I'm sure it'll get cold eventually but every bit of money they save NOW will help later. And in late March UKR starts to thaw.

[IronLionZion]

5. Might be in for a hot summer

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Despite some snowy areas of the US, DC is quite warm now at around 66 F

[Old Crank]

6. Here in Munich

We had warm weather also. The snow that arrived the weekend before Xmas was all gone before the 24th. We went to 18C for New years day.
October was unseasonably warm. November was about right but no snow and it snowed for 2-3 days after the 15th of December.
For us while Spain and France baked we in Munich had reasonable summer weather. Rain and very few days over 30C. Not like our week in London which went over 30 the whole time almost.
So who knows what we will get this summer. Perhaps France and pain will be spared and we will get cooked.