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I've also heard about those snow anomalies, here in Sweden much inland and in the mountain regions the snow depths are quite big, not due to cold weather what most people think, but to milder and more moistrous conditions, which have been here the whole winter. And because of the avg. temps a normal year inland are around -10'c in the winter, a few degrees more doesn't make any difference, the day temps just stay more close to zero by giving bigger intensity when it snows. But if you live more near the coastal regions like Stockholm and Oslo and so on, the winter climate becomes much more sensitive, a few degrees more completely ruins winter since avg temps are just a few degrees below zero. And because of that the winter here where i live has mostly been completely snow free. Just a few snaps with snow depth for a couple of days, but really nothing special. February is the month here you think should be very cold with snow and -10'c days, but now it is a +4'c outside, warm sun and chirping birds, nothing i can remember i've seen in my life this far!

I live on the outskirts of Stockholm not far away from Uppsala, and i must say, that is a very good site to see all the seasons and weather from year to year! But indeed this winter and the one before have been extremely snow cover/cold sparse. Usually if the winter is a little mild at least one month has good cold to keep snow for a long time, at least into the end of March when the snow cover often disappears. Some years have been very good with snow, for example 2006 when temps were a little below normal putting snow cover long into April with lake ice left at the 15th. And if the conditons are good with snow it often gets very cold, for example 2 March 2005 when it was a clear night and a thick snow cover, the temps where around -25'c the whole region at morning and Uppsala had its coldest ever for many years, -30'c, later in the day it got milder by more than 20 degrees. For this region snow cover is much more common than snow free so i have to say it feels strange to be outside right now with +3'c, no snow and lush green lawns!

Brilliant photos!

I have been to Germany, but not to Munich, but i've googled up the winter stats for that city (worldclimate.com): Dec -1,0 Jan -1,8 Feb -0,6 ('c) I think Munich could be the coldest city in Germany when you compare to low level cities, but i don't think we will see such temps during this winter, the whole of Europe has big temp anomalies of around 5'c which maybe would not give Munich in this case those very wintry conditions =/

So far is Stockholm very mild at 0'c as avg, i believe that it will be at 0'c or just above like some very mild januarys in the 90's, I think it will go on and whole Europe will get exceptional high temps, due to continous westerly winds and block Siberian air from the east and from the north, i'll go for a CET of 9'c and i think it will go on for the whole winter.

Seems that the whole Europe was taken by that extremely cold spell! Looked up that day for my region, and by that day the tmax was -19'c and two days earlier it was -25'c, can not imagine how cold that must have felt that day Most common is to see a tmax around -10'c here every year in a cold spell but it varietes a lot... :o

The snow that came at 1 January is slowly thawing away... Temp +1,8'c, humidity 95%, cloudy and grey skies... forecast is mild for the whole week, 1-3'c every day with barely no difference between day and night... nooo! More snow and cold please?

Here were i live would 6-8'c be extremely mild during winter! But everything is relative as some one wrote here in the forum... when it gets from summer to autumn with a tmax of 10'c people say it is bitterly cold, the same when the first tmax around zero in november comes up... But now in january when tmax avg should be at -2'c to -1'c with snow outside with some cold days and mild days a 2-3'c is something that people hate, wet snow, too warm etc, but when the first two digit day with sunshine comes in the end of march, beginning of april, people start to go in t-shirts :wacko:

I'm no expert but i have for sure not seen snow at 7'c... the warmest i think i have seen was a November day in 2005 when the winter came for the first time, at morning it was a very mild 10'c but at 12:00 rain started pouring down, 12:15 it began snowing with an temp of around 2,5'c to 3'c...

Hässelby-Stockholm, Sweden at 22:40 Weather: Cloudy, snowing all day long with 10-15 cm at the ground Temp: -1,5'c Dewpoint: -4,8'c Windchill: ~ -7'c Humidity: 80% Pressure: 1040,5 hPa and rising Today's tmax: -1,0'c at 02:00 Today's tmin: -3,2 at 15:20

My part of Sweden in the Stockholm area averages from -4' more of the coast to a -2,5' more near the coast in jan-feb and the mildest winters in Sweden you will find in Malmö in the very south, it averages nearly a exact 0' in same period which is nearly at the edge of the winter definition the swedish metrological institute has written! We say that winter begins at the day which is the beginning of 7 days in a row with a avg temp below 0', and spring begins at the first day with avgtemp above 0', 7 days in a row, i believe that Britain has another definition of winter! =P

Which is the coldest place in Britain? Is there any place with a January avgtemp below 0'?

Found today a norwegian site ( rimfrost.no ) which is like a tool to see the climate at many places around the globe, probably many of you have some sites for comparing temperatures and so on, but this one i think this may be the best at the internet and it has most information and graphs since you can find for many cities monthly statistics from even the 1800s! Stockholm where i live has monthly statistics from even 1722! (Stockholm and the city of Uppsala 60 km north of Stockholm was the first place in the world to begin with these statistics ) Very intresting site to see what the climate has been a long time before even we was born! I was quite supriced when i looked up the coldest month ever in london 1841-2004, and it was just a mere -1,5'c avgtemp in jan 1963, for stockholm i found a -14,9'c in jan 1814, omg! For those who have never seen this page i hope you will see some benefit by this site!

I posted in the wrong topic before so now it should be correct.. My part of Stockholm has a -3,5'c in average 1960-1990 in January so i believe in the same for England but with a + before since it is like 7 degs milder o something, so +3,5'c would be my guess for the January CET!

I think of a -3,5'c for me which is the normal 1960-1990 for my part of the country and since England is like 7'c warmer in winter i believe in a CET: -3,5+7 = 3,5'c!

Hello hello, i'm new to this forum and i live in Stockholm, Sweden. And not even in my city we will see a white christmas =O usually we have a 55%-70% chance for snow cover at Christmas Eve here with an average daytemp of 0' and nighttemp of -5', but now at 12:00 24/12 it is +2,8' and the deeply frozen ground we have had yesterday here for two weeks has now thawed away! =/ A Christmas Eve like it was in 2001 would be the best, 25 cm snow at the ground and daily temps very cold at -15'c to -5'c and nights at -20'c or below! =)