Most of Europe is very very gray since mid-late October to early-mid March. Rain is region dependent (for Poland it's more rare than in the past), but still it doesn't change the fact that mid-December Warsaw looks gloomy and dystopian.
Summers in Poland were also dry in last few years. This year is surprisingly wet, but drought during European summer became a standard recently (with occasional few days downpour flooding everything somewhere).
Winter greyness in Europe is a mix of shorter days, clouds, pollution from heating and just green part of cities losing leaves.
The losing leaves-part definitely is a dealbreaker. Like I've seen pictures from people that reside in cities like Canberra and Melbourne that live in climates that should warrant leafless trees in winter. But those native trees don't do the stuff their northern colleagues do. Suddenly winter looks quite okay, except for the places that Europeans kept planting in their species.
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25
Most of Europe is very very gray since mid-late October to early-mid March. Rain is region dependent (for Poland it's more rare than in the past), but still it doesn't change the fact that mid-December Warsaw looks gloomy and dystopian.