Here's my contribution - winter in Serbia (at least in my neighborhood anyway)...
Actually we were having quite mild winters with very little (if any) snowing over the last few years, but now we are reminded how real winter looks like. But this is nothing in comparison how it used to be once. I remember my grandfather's stories how winters were over here when he was young (he was born in 1918 ). Sometimes when you cleaned sidewalks from snow you couldn't see to the other side of the street, that high the piles of snow were. And the winter of 1941/42 was particularly harsh. Danube and Sava rivers were completely frozen that winter and measures had to taken to secure the bridges over Sava at Belgrade so they wouldn't be damaged or destroyed by ice.