Maybe in Siberia? I can’t find anything for, say, Ukraine to suggest it averaged -30 for months

>I was growing up here in the 90s; we had solid -30 Celsius winters for several months.

Where? In your imagination?

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148642/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148509/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148455/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148594/1990/Historical-Weather-...

Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you have correct information, it's enough to provide that without crossing into personal attack. These threads are flamewar prone enough as it is.

Maybe I should have prefaced my last sentence in the original comment with a fat /sarcasm tag. I know it's a sensitive topic but I appreciate you pointing out the insensitivity in my reply.

Charitable, Ufa in Russia gets pretty close: https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148894/1990/Historical-Weather-...

And that is litterally as east in Europe one can go - I honestly didn’t realise how far into Russia you can go before crossing the Ural Mountains.

Temperature rising ~2°C/century:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Temperature+in+ufa

linear trend: 0.021 °C/yr±0.016 °C/yr (48 yr/°C)

low: -47 °C 1979 | average high: | 35 °C average low: | -35 °C | high: 39 °C 1952, ...