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I checked December stats for Lodz. What an awful winter month for central Poland, it looks straight out of western Europe. It would actually be above average for a lot of western European cities as well. I assume it was unusually windy? Speaking of absolute minimums, I see that 2007-2008 didn't go below -12°C. Do you know if that was the mildest absolute low ever recorded on a particular winter in Lodz? It seems so.
Today was windy. Looking at the pine to the left, you can tell which direction the wind usually comes from. Palms agree:
Why don't we get nice surf like this when water temps are swimmable?
See what I mean when I say I envy Dunkirk's beaches?
That isn't sand, it is pebbly rock. We don't really have those kind of beaches on the East Coast here except north of Cape Cod I think. Most people think of NJ beaches as awful, but I find them satisfying enough for me both in terms of water temp and quality.
I checked December stats for Lodz. What an awful winter month for central Poland, it looks straight out of western Europe. It would actually be above average for a lot of western European cities as well. I assume it was unusually windy? Speaking of absolute minimums, I see that 2007-2008 didn't go below -12°C. Do you know if that was the mildest absolute low ever recorded on a particular winter in Lodz? It seems so.
So, when is Europe finally going to get a brutal winter again? 2012 big deal you had two weeks of cold. I want to see weeks on end below avg like we got in 2014 and 2015.
That's quite amazing for a city at that latitude. I would say it was just about impossible to have no frost after July 9 for here. Even the mildest winters still have frosty spells in every month.
Not so exceptional. Leeds didn't record a single freeze in January & February 1990. Lowest in either month was 0.4C. December 1989 had two freezes while March 1990 had two. So quite the extended frost-free period.
Not so exceptional. Leeds didn't record a single freeze in January & February 1990. Lowest in either month was 0.4C. December 1989 had two freezes while March 1990 had two. So quite the extended frost-free period.
Well, rainfall was around average but I'd presume cloudy and damp, as most very mild months tend to be in winter. January that year had 18 days of rain >1mm and February had 16. So not what I'd describe as nice - probably quite gloomy (I was too young to remember though).
Both months also had some very destructive windstorms - Leeds recorded a 99mph gust on one day, and the Burns' Day Storm is one of the most infamous in Europe's history.
Not so exceptional. Leeds didn't record a single freeze in January & February 1990. Lowest in either month was 0.4C. December 1989 had two freezes while March 1990 had two. So quite the extended frost-free period.
Interesting that December 1989 was very frigid here in the US.
So, when is Europe finally going to get a brutal winter again? 2012 big deal you had two weeks of cold. I want to see weeks on end below avg like we got in 2014 and 2015.
Winter 2008/09, 09/10, 10/11, and spring 2013 weren't cold enough? They were below average for weeks on end, recor breaking in some cases.
I read though that those 3 winters ended a more than decade long streak of exceptionally warm winters for you guys.
Not really, only the winters of 06/07 and 07/08 were exceptionally mild. The preceding decade had a mix of mild and cold winters, 2003/4 or 2005/6 are examples. Winter 2000/1 was very cold. The 90s had some mild and cold winters too.
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