This picture shows how crazy the weather has been the past months here in northwest Germany... Daisies and other small flowers blooming mid December.

First relief for skiing resorts

Finally, after an extreme November and December with no trace of winter, it has now arrived in the western parts of Germany, too.
Last night was the coldest this winter, after we hadn't had any frost at all, it got down to 17F (-8.5C).

This small skiing resort, the closest to my city, have switched on their skiing lifts the first time last weekend:
http://www.wildewiese.de/

Snow is melting fast even in the highest resorts in my region. Just one or two weeks of skiing yet this winter.
The following video (from 2008) shows one of the longest slopes in the Sauerland mountains in my region. These action cam videos are nice...
https://youtu.be/bBJtQTO0DM8

Climate is changing everywhere. Don't understand how anyone can deny global warming.

No one is denying that the climate is changing; just about how much of it is caused by us.

The most vocal say it is caused wholly by us, whereas the climate sceptics say that it is a naturally occurring event over 1000s of years, and we have just accelerated it.

The solution for the most vocal is that we should spend all the money on reducing our carbon emissions (Effectively putting all the eggs in one basket) to solve the problem, whereas the climate sceptics say, that we should in addition to reducing our carbon emissions, also be spending money on building defences & planning for what will eventually come no matter what we do.

History has shown that putting all your eggs in one basket is a disaster waiting to happen; hence I�m on the sceptic side, and we should be focusing on reducing emissions and building defences.

Global Warming is a media created term which does not represent the full gamut of climate change.

Bill

But that discussion belongs into this thread:
http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/390490/Global_warming#Post390490

This thread here is a weather thread, your discussion is a climate discussion.
Even three warm winters in a row still belong to the topic "weather" and not "climate" or "climate change".
I'm not denying climate change, but you can only speak of climate if an average of 20-30 years in a row is calculated and compared with the average of an earlier or later period of 20-30 years. This thread named "remarkable weather events" refers to single observations, and it's always a mistake to derive a climate change trend from them.
That's also the main reason there are so many discussions about it: people always tend to be influenced in their thinking only by what they have experienced recently. So ask people in the eastern US: they will tell you that global warming is ridiculous as they've experienced many cold winters in the past years. People in California have no doubt about climate change as they've experienced drought during the past years. Even people in Europe, where most winters were extremely mild over the last 10 years, said climate was getting colder when ONE SINGLE December in 2010 was extremely snowy and cold. None of these things alone are reliable indications of climate change.

Isn't that saying if it wasn't for us we wouldn't be experiencing it now? If we are accelerating it us then yes it is being caused by us.

Taipei, Jan. 24 (CNA) Snow, which is rarely seen in Taiwan, an Asia-Pacific island crossed by the Tropic of Cancer, wowed people around the island Sunday with the appearance of the white stuff, from the capital Taipei in the north to Pingtung County in the south.

Read on: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201601240014.aspx

It even snowed in the north of Laos and places in Vietnam where it usually never snows.

I read about the unusual cold spill/spell in Southeast Asia... Maybe connected to El Nino...

Today +13 in Ontario. Dogs don't even want to come inside the house.