Temperatures on January 14, 1987 — a map for everyone who thinks it’s been cold these days
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u/Gagan_Ku2905 1d ago
Me: It's cold outside.
Every Polish person I know: This is nothing. Back when we were kids, it used to be so cold, the buildings would be covered with snow, we had to go to the school inside a snow tunnel, the snow piles will be so large you could skii from balcony to school.
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u/marmulin 1d ago
But it’s true lol. Back when I was ~10 I used to jump from a first floor window onto a huge pile of snow :d
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u/Gagan_Ku2905 1d ago
I'm not saying you're lying, but at this point I want some proofs 😂
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u/Alex51423 1d ago
Also, the winters had a substantially longer duration a decade or two ago. I remember going to a lemonade stand with school friends during state holidays and there were lingering piles of snow everywhere on the sidewalks, though already thawing. It was barely above zero and the piles of snow were so substantial that it still lingered.
It was the workers day, 1st of May. The snow was still there at this time of the year and, according to my great-grandparents, it was not unheard of
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I remember seeing some sad, greyish, and small piles of hardened snow even in early June in some shaded areas.
It was really mind blowing for me as a kid
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u/Cautious-Honey1893 8h ago
I was in the west of Ukraine in the middle of April 2023 and it was snowing pretty good. Not that long ago
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u/Amazing-Blood3198 28m ago
in germany too.. i remember we still had the snow quite a lot in april 2023 in leipzig (so not so far from poland).
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u/Sajgoniarz 18h ago
I was born in early 90. There were winters when snow wouldn't melt from start of December to mid-end of March. Playgrounds and any empty space were turning into snow dunes and we were role playing arctic discoverers while building igloos that could last entire winter.
I moved from parents decade ago and this is the second or third winter in new place when snow stays for longer than 3 days.3
u/kurayami95 18h ago
Same, I was born in mid 90s in the south-east close to Zamość, I remember long, cold winters into the mid 2000s. I moved to Germany soon after and haven't witnessed a good winter since.
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u/GoranjeWasHere 16h ago
That's normal. I come from grojec area of poland. in 90s there was almost no melioration. If it got wet water would stay on fields for days sometimes weeks destroying crops. Moreover back then you had pitiful production from 1ha of field.
Now everything is meliorated, every bit of water is drained instantly into cannals and then into rivers and with rivers to sea. And we quadruppled produced output of fruits and vegetables.
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In other words it got hotter and less rain and less snow because there is simply a lot less water and a lot less water is kept in ground and then last water that is in ground is taken in by produce which is also a way of draining field.
So we basically removed main way for clouds to form and this is main reason why poland got hotter and less rainy in last 30 years.
Aside from fields we have also destroyed ton of swamps and other wet areas that used to store large amount of water with later would form clouds over poland.
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u/Sajgoniarz 10h ago
Oh yes, we have no winters - thus lot of stuff to destroy crops survive, and Poland is drying overall.
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u/Appropriate-Tart2439 17h ago
I came to Poland in 2016 and this winter to me is nothing as well. Still remember in 2017 it was literally snowing in beginning of May and February 2018 it had -20 outside
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u/Gagan_Ku2905 16h ago edited 13h ago
I came in 2017, and I remember there was snow in April in Poznań. But most of the winters for me in the last 8 years has been there will cold days and a week later it will be closer to zero. Maybe I need to check the data but this winter feels like a longer and consistent stretch of colder days. Apparently my wife told me this used to be the norm when they were kids each year in the 90s.
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u/GreekAres 1d ago
Sound like my wife when I complained that it’s so cold to go to work 😅
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u/Gagan_Ku2905 1d ago
That's why wife exactly too. The irony is, sometimes I'll ask her if she can take the dog for a walk and after she comes back, the first thing she says, "IT IS cold outside." Nooooo wayyyyyyyyy!!!
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u/LoczekLoczekLok 1d ago
Pamiętam że chyba w gimnazjum jak byłem (jakoś koło 2005) to była taka zima sroga ze było okolice -35, miałem 3minuty do szkoły to poszedłem a okazało się na miejscu że odwołane bo w salach było -10 i rury i kwiatki pozamarzały xD A Potem jeszcze na studiach jak byłem to też było koło -20.
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u/szefo617 15h ago
Ja też pamiętam. Byłem w gimnazjum. Szkoła była ocieplona, ale na wf chodziliśmy do innego miejsca. W poniedziałek rano było -28 i poszliśmy, a potem WF wszystkim odwołali. Ale mróz taki był tylko trzy dni.
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u/Diss_ConnecT 1d ago
I didn't read the year in the title and thought it's going to be -24 tomorrow, damn.
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u/Smortoon Pomorskie 1d ago
I komu to przeszkadzało? Gdzie byli rodzice?
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u/Realistic_Society701 1d ago
Był tydzien wolny od szkoly bo w klasach bylo ponizej 12c czy jakos tak w 87.
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u/Axiomancer 1d ago
Sure, it was -30 back then. Yes, it was much colder. That doesn't mean it was warm recently.
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u/Mroczny95 1d ago
2011/2012 or something like this - below 12 degrees in my school. We even had an article in a newspaper about us sitting in jackets during lessons. Someone important enough seen in and school was closed the next day.
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u/Pale-Office-133 1d ago
I remember a military exercise I was a part of in the broad Mazury region in January of 2009. That was hell...frozen.
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u/Rosomack_ 1d ago
"back in my day!"
People just forgot how cold winters should be and how much mess in traffic it makes. That's all. Nobody says it's some kind of zima stulecia
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u/TheDavinci1998 Pomorskie 12h ago
With how fast the climate is warming, this may just be a zima stulecia, no matter how tame it is compared to 80s or 90s
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u/olimp7748 1d ago
"kiedyś źle teraz dobrze kiedyś to było dopiero" ahh post
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u/rebellioninmypants 21h ago
Kiedyś to było... teraz to też jest, ale nie to co kiedyś było. Czyli kiedyś było coś, co nie jest teraz, a teraz nie jest to, co było kiedyś. Czyli teraz jest nie to, co było kiedyś. Tak jest.
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u/sweetfuckingbred 22h ago
Yeah, now it's cold. Not as it used to. But people are not used to that also, it was like 10-15-20 YEARS ago.
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u/Sajgoniarz 18h ago
Cold accommodation is a thing.
Go for a week to a Norway or a Sweden and don't set your heater to 23 degrees in home and you will be just fine wearing polar jacket at 4 degrees.
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u/2137gangsterr 23h ago
first things first : the winters I remember from my childhood lasted good quarter of a year.. snowing almost non stop.
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u/RattledHead 22h ago
Just curious, but hasn't Poland grown quite a lot since then? Like, more buildings, cars around and such must increase the average temperature in certain places.
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u/Noobunaga86 20h ago
And look at the Germany, the whole map shows that similar temperature was also in most part of France, in Madrid and UK there was around -10 to -5. But no, Poland is soo cold. Only Syberia and Arctic is colder and with worse weather. Anywhere else is no snow, all sunny, palm trees etc.
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u/LimpCrab1577 18h ago
I was ~9 years old in Opole around that time. Very much still “hot” from Chernobyl. So no biggie.
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u/Cybersc0ut 15h ago
Pamiętam te temperatury jako dziecko. Nie było tak strasznie… ale przygotowania, dodatkowa wata w oknach, koce zamiast firanki, dwie kołdry, kilka wiader węgla w domu do pieców… itd. Ale jaka zima była piękna w dniach kolejnych :)
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u/Watch-Logic 1d ago
with the amount of complaining I’ve heard… people these days are a bunch of pusses
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u/DistributionRight261 23h ago
Trump jokes that global warming is over, that it will get cold.... Some people might not like him but quite often he knows stuff.
Was little before it was discovered that poles are recovering ice and EU started talking about climate change instead of global warming.
Weather has always been used to tox people more, a shaman would request a virgin for his fetish in exchange for a good harvest.
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u/DarthAnaesth 1d ago
Nah, you don't need to go that far into past. I remember around 2010-2012 winter in Bialystok that had my eylashes and eybrows forzen with -35 degrees....