Once upon a winter Warmth marks the season

Vicenzi "Once upon a time, there was winter. Snow on the plains, frost, temperatures below zero for days on end. A distant memory, as gloves, scarves, and hats are forgotten in the closets. According to Arpav data, the just-concluded season was the second warmest in the last thirty years in Veneto. To find slightly higher temperatures, indeed, one must go back ten years, to 2013-2014. Even in the last four years, values had been above average, but never like the past months. The trend was characterized by an unusual frequency of relatively mild air masses for the season, sometimes of Mediterranean or North African origin, sometimes of Atlantic origin, without significant and lasting cold incursions from polar or Arctic origins. Analyzing the distribution of the seasonal average temperature across the regional territory and comparing it with the thirty-year average (1991-2020 period), a strong anomaly emerges everywhere: +2.3 degrees compared to the norm. The greatest deviations were recorded in mountainous and foothill areas, especially at altitude, where differences from the thirty-year average even exceeded +3 degrees. In short, a warm and anomalous winter: December, despite some brief fairly cold spells, is on average the second warmest in the series, January is the tenth warmest while February is exceptionally warm, clearly ranking first with over one degree of average deviation from the region compared to the previous record set in 2014. The frequent positive temperature anomalies recorded throughout the season are made even more evident by the scant number of frost days. Compared to the thirty-year average from 1991-2020, the number of frost days this winter shows a significant decrease, averaging less than 17 days. As for precipitation, the winter of 2013-14, besides being the warmest, was also the rainiest. In terms of total seasonal precipitation, the just-passed winter ranks fifth after 2013-14, 2008-09, 2020-2021, and 2009-10."
Meanwhile, a survey by the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore places Vicenza at the 79th position in terms of the Climate Index. Seven and a half hours of sunshine per day, nearly three months of rainfall, and 71 days with a perceived temperature exceeding 30 degrees Celsius are among the climatic parameters determining the ranking, updated with data provided by 3bmeteo for the decade 2013-2023. The capital of Vicenza doesn't shine, indeed. Out of 107 cities, only 28 have a worse climate than ours. In the snapshot taken, the gold medal goes to Bari, the city with the best climate in Italy. In second place is Imperia, followed by other cities in the central-southern regions, almost all of them close to the sea: Barletta-Andria-Trani, Catania, Pescara, Livorno, Chieti, Brindisi, Agrigento, and Cagliari. To find a Venetian city, one must go down to the 32nd position, occupied by Venice.