Patrols that resume to shelter the homeless; Amateur gardeners taking out their winter sails to protect plants from frost, an advertisement extolling the pleasures of raclette just before the weather report... There's no doubt about it, winter is here. After an abnormally mild December, the Moscow-Paris train with the air of the Trans-Siberian Railway is rushing in with its wagons of morning frosts and polar temperatures.
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It's in season, after all. So why make a big deal out of it? Because in recent years we had become accustomed to mild winters like springs and temperatures last month were +1.9°C above the 1991-2020 normals. This puts December in fifth place among the mildest observed since the post-war period.
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