Not to nitpick and assuming you're living in the northern hemisphere, winter has not officially arrived; we're still in the fall/autumn season.

In fact It’s unseasonably hot currently. Nobody is using heaters at all I suspect.

Where do you live?

The south of Spain.

Yeah, sorry.

Same here, northern Germany, it has been unusual warm, we haven't started to heat this year yet because of it

(though I might not be impacted as hard later also as the city is producing biogas and is using PtH).

Strikingly warm in Sweden as well. Geothermal heat pump does work a few hours per day, anyway. It drops far below 10 degrees celsius at night and my house is not modern enough to manage comfortable temperature with only waste energy as source.

Yes we're lucky to live in a modern house.

Chiming in from Poland. There have been a few cold nights in the last week or two, but otherwise it's autumn-level warm. Today in particular was unexpectedly warm, early summer levels.

Same in Berlin

Slovakia, we didn't start heating yet, a few years ago that would be unthinkable. Looking at the forecast, we won't be heating for at least another 10 days.

Which is good, isn't it?

At least the energy crisis has been averted for the first month of the autumn season in Europe and the outlook looks promising going into the second month esp for households in light of rising costs and soaring inflation.

Good right now in the energy crisis, not so good long-term when higher temperatures won't be matched by more rain, which they probably won't, and we will slowly turn into a savannah.

It's a little too nitpicky IMO to point this out (not to say you were trying to be though, all good), because what people are shorthanding here is that it's "unseasonably warm" still, and that's a good thing.

"Winter so far has been mild" is not a confusion on their part that it won't get any colder, just a misstatement. Autumn has been unseasonably warm, and the difference in parts of Europe between the two isn't as severe as here in the US.

I like how you're effectively nitpicking my seemingly nitpicking comment in defense of anti-nitpicking :)

It's nitpicks all the way down! :D

>LNG industry can keep pace and replace Russia for good.

Nobody can replace Russia and their resources in the long-term.

“long term” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

It seems clear that what we’re doing right now can sustain things until spring. If we’re willing to pay to do it again next year, and the year after that… at some point it’s going to be financially viable to change the makeup of both energy sources and how it’s consumed.

>at some point it’s going to be financially viable to change the makeup of both energy sources and how it’s consumed

Last spring - which is why heat pumps became very popular in Europe over summer. Things will change even more in the future, though I'm not sure how much.

Nobody should replace Russia in the long term as fossil fuels should go away completely.

North American petroleum and developing solar and nuclear resources probably can.

Russia is being replaced by solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear power in the long term. Being a fossil fuel exporter is not a sustainable business model in the 21st century.

The thermal power available from all Russian gas is a 5 years of chinese PV module production or 10 years of world wind additions at the current (rapidly increasing) rate. We can tighten the belt by 15% while building out enough capacity to replace it entirely.

Once cheap hydrolysers scale production, a huge chunk of the market will start to disappear due to ammonia production switching over.

It can for Europe, prices will be higher than with Russian gas, and production cost will rise.

But the main impact will be to poorer countries which until now might have been depending on LNG while "rich" Europe is buying up everything.

4 seasons in 12 months = 3 months per season. March is not winter, it's the start of spring.

March, April, May = Spring

June, July, August = Summer

September, October, November = Autumn/Fall

December, January, February = Winter

No Winter has started this year yet, we have one more month of Autumn/Fall.

> March is not winter, it's the start of spring.

That depends on which definition you're using. The astronomical winter runs until 21 March (and doesn't start until 22 December). Seasons in general are just a somewhat ill-defined concept, as weather doesn't particularly care about human constructs.