European Gardening: Winterwatch?, 1 by rannveig

rannveig wrote:
I think the winters were colder 20 years back when I was growing up - I seem to remember more snow. This winter has been pretty cold however compared to the past 2 or 3 ...... last winter never really came until March - very mild and wet. We've had temps down to -10°C several times already and more or less temps around or just below zero since late October ....... This past summer was very cool and wet so we're hoping a decent winter will mean a decent summer next year :-) The weather has been a bit "off" all year - a very mild winter, extremely cold spring, a cool wet summer followed by an unusually mild fall ..... and then the winter so far has been pretty cold ( finally something normal!)

Photo taken today around 4:30 pm. The days are getting real short now - only a week until winter solstice. Sunrise was at 11:11 today and sunset at 3:29.