Nothing like a good old white and snowy christmas, I love it, but once christmas is over and a new year has begun, I cannot wait for the snow to disappear and feel the spring coming :slight_smile:

Wait… What??
You can have -21C in December in Greece… :cold_face:
Living in northern part of Denmark in Scandinavia we very rarely see such low temperatures around christmas, it usually happens in the coldest part of winter, mid January to mid February :grin:

I think your wife didn’t tell you the whole truth, -21c is too damn cold for miniskirt etc. I think she was trying to impress you :grin:

There are also some factors that comes into play on how you actually feel the temperature, like wind chill and air humidity…
Usually small islands have more wind and can therefore feel a bit chilly especially in moderate temperatures and cloudy weather.

In Denmark we normally have 20-25c during the summer and first month of autumn, but there can also be smaller or bigger heatwaves with temperatures between 25 and 35c.
I know it doesn’t sound like much to what you normally experience during a summer, but if we get a heatwave, there is quite often no wind at all, not a cloud in sight + pretty high humitity, add those things together and you suffer really hard during such days, and it can definitely feel a lot hotter than same temperatures in the Mediterranean.
A few years ago we were on a vacation in Crete, the daily temperature was mostly around 30c ±5, but it was quite often a bit windy, not that we felt cold or anything, but defintely enough to not really feel overheated.
We often sat in the pool bar area at night drinking cocktails and playing Uno while listening to music, and even though the evening temperature was around 20-25c there was sometimes a bit of wind that made us feel chilly, so we often wore a long sleeved shirt/hoodie over our clothes to mitigate the slight wind chills :joy:

I am still amazed that you can have such low temperatures in Greece so early in the winter, but I guess it has something to do with cold coming from the Russian continent perhaps, a bit same as when we get weather coming from either north(Norway) or east(Russia) then temperatures can sometimes be as low as minus 20-25c and in extreme cases down to minus 30-35c, and if there is a blizzard or just strong winds… Then you stay in doors and only move out having covered the face except for eyes simply because inhaling ice crystals can be dangerous to your health :cold_face:

However usually our weather is mostly grey, wet, windy and a bit chilly during most of the year, so we really appreciate the few differences when it is cold and clear in winter or hot and sunny in summer because so much grey and dull weather really can affect your mood quite a bit, especially when it is the same day after day, week after week :joy:

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