This is a hot topic now more than ever. Climate change! After a summer of fire, literally, with many hundreds of fires in the Mediterranean and very high temperatures all over Europe, it is now wintertime.
According to the calendar and I can confirm from my lifelong observations, at least in the part of Europe where I live, i.e. in the East, winter started in December and ended in early March. With a few small deviations from time to time.
Now everything has changed, I've been noticing this for about ten years...
Searching through some older photos I found a few from the last worst winter I can remember. Luckily the photos preserve the information and that's how I found out they were taken on January 11, 2017. The last heavy winter in Bucharest, Romania that I remember.
The park next to the house, early enough in the morning that the driveways don't get cleared of snow. If I remember correctly, all this snow was only deposited after a night of snow. My wife loves winter the most and immediately wanted to take a walk.
The pigeons living in the park were also taken by surprise. Not a pleasant surprise for them.
I look at these images and can't believe they were real.
The trunks of the trees look frozen, like creatures that have frozen to their feet and can no longer move.
The street, all the streets in the neighborhood, were buried in snow. Cars parked the same way. There was some movement until I was able to get the snow off the gate and off the car.
This happened in December 2017. In the following years, there was less and less snow, and this year it still hasn't snowed in Bucharest. It has snowed in the north of the country, it has snowed in mountainous areas, at altitude, but not yet in Bucharest.
The last photo was taken on January 28, 2022, in Herastrau Park in Bucharest.
This is my entry for the #monomad challenge
