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Re:Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter by jacquesm on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:32AM (#35478763)
And it wasn't a particularly mild winter. Not the worst, but certainly nowhere near the best.
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Re:Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter by luckylion on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:58AM (#35479300)
At least for Germany it was very mild. You could've worn a T-Shirt on New Year's Eve. Its average temperatures may not stand out among the last 5 winters because they were all particularly mild, but compared to the past 50 years, it absolutely was standing out.
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Re:Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter by jacquesm on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:23AM (#35480465)
Europe is large enough that the weather isn't uniform.
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Re:Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter by luckylion on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:36AM (#35481419)
Surprisingly so (but then again, mostly not), but that comment specifically mentioned Germany.

And for Europe as a whole: Winter temperatures in 2022 were around 1°C above average, ranking amongst the ten warmest winters. [1]

As far as I understand, that's the top 10 out of the past 170 years.

[1] https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2022-was-year-clima...

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Re:Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter by RHSman2 on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:01AM (#35479967)
Was very, very mild.
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