have you noticed a warming up of the climate?

[crazyladybutterfly]

No mountains here, not even hills for my region. I guess it affects climate. However, it used to be different. Ice skating was typically part of Dutch culture, even Southern Dutch. 400 to 500 years ago there the Little Ice Age was still on-going and it shows in paintings.





(peculiar painting this one, mountains which don't exist here. In his early life, Bruegel did travel to Rome to study, though).

I don't even know how to ice skate. Our generation lost the tradition. It's only truly practiced in the Northern Netherlands, mainly Friesland today, though it has been more than 20 years since they held their Elfstedentocht (in 1997; after their one in 1986). Soon they'll have an entire generation that never had experienced it, sadly.

The worst winter in recent history, though, has got to be the one my parents experienced in 1963-'64. The coldest winter since the revolution year 1789 (that date is no coincidence I think).

where i live there are no mountains , i live right near the coast actually.

[Tchek]

Yes, we used to have snow in winter times in Normandy, every year since I was born. Now I didnt see snow for like 3 years When I say snow I mean the one which remains for long and thick one.

Same. The sound of my steps in the snow feels nostalgic... that's weird

really? here we normally have snow at least one time in the year ... i expected belgium to be always snowy in december

Belgium is *wet* in winter, but snowy... nah. Snow is too cool for Belgium.

[MysteriousWays]

Snow here two weeks earlier than normal. About 15cm on ground

[Mens-Sarda]

In the last 30 years I noticed a big change in our climate. When I was a child it started to be fresh / cold from the last half of September and I had to go out with long sleeves, in these last years I could arrive to November or sometimes to December wearing a T-shirt. Rain has become more unstable, less rainy days, but concentrated in huge storms, for example this year we had almost 8 months without consistent rain, just 3 or 4 single days with huge storms; it started to rain yesterday, and it seems that cold has finally arrived. About snow instead, when I was a child, during the 80s, we had at least about a week or two of snow per winter (we are not in a mountain place, I live far from the sea, about 55km, it's an area about 500-750mt above sea level); as children we expected winter to plunge into snow, I remember that we created huge balls of snow pushing them on the road, and they became 2mt large. Nowadays, we are extremely lucky if the temperature drops enough to have 2 or 3 days of snow with few cm of snow on the ground. Summer instead has become longer, it starts earlier and finishes later, with much hotter temperatures than before.

[Lioncourt]

Bulgaria seems to get lots of snow and cold in the winter.

It depends where, for example Plovdiv rarely has snow cover for more than a few days. I remember only twice in my life snow lasting more than a week. Mountains are very snowy though, as well as Sofia.

What's strange about wearing t-shirt in Italy in November? You basically don't have winter except in the Alps. Sorry if I'm wrong but I stereotype Spain and Italy as always sunny (like Greece).

[Mens-Sarda]

It depends where, for example Plovdiv rarely has snow cover for more than a few days. I remember only twice in my life snow lasting more than a week. Mountains are very snowy though, as well as Sofia.

What's strange about wearing t-shirt in Italy in November? You basically don't have winter except in the Alps. Sorry if I'm wrong but I stereotype Spain and Italy as always sunny (like Greece).

It's really abnormal to wear T-Shirts in November, because until few years ago I had to wear thick jackets from the second half of September. In the area of Sardinia where I live (north west), winter is humid and cold, the Mistral wind pummels nw Sardinia for about 200 days per year, reaching often 100Kmh (150 on the strait between Sardinia and Corsica). Temperatures can drop of 15°C from one day to another when Mistral wind arrives (few days ago we had 25°C, today we have 9°C because of the wind). Moreover in winter the combination of Mistral wind + cloud absence causes a huge thermal excursion reaching minimum temperatures of about -10 or -15°C.

This is how most of the trees appear in north Sardinia because of Mistral wind, there are whole woods bent like these trees :

Spoiler!

Mistral wind is a cold wind that originates in the Atlantic ocean and North Sea, crosses France entering in western Mediterranean sea, hitting hard Sardinia and Corsica.

[Jana]

Yes. Today is first real autunm day and it is first week into November. I am in Croatia this week.
Two weeks ago, you could still bath/swimm in the sea.