Ivica, I wish I was yet less clumsy with my iPhone, but already all is in bloom here in Vancouver, BC.
My "Hydro" bill (electricity here is called "Hydro", because it is mostly from water power, "Hydro Dams") clearly states, other than reminding me to be careful and save electricity, that this winter was 1º C warmer than last.
Subjectively, I actually never connected my natural gas space heater at all.
A couple of days, I turned on all the flames on the stove for a while, to take the edge off.
But winters in the North-West of the americas have become much milder and drier in the last twenty years I've lived here.
Wetter and snowier at altitude at the same time too. Alas, all the coastal ice fields retreated much at the annual average.
I know so, because I work in film, and we find it increasingly difficult to budget for a "winter scene" in summer on real ice/snow. You have to drive much further to be sure.
The general feeling seems to be happiness about that, because now you see people keeping palm trees and bananas in their front yards, which did not survive winter in the past.
We are still listed as a "temperate rain forest" zone... (BTW, that means moss and cypresses, usually)
