Balmy weather confusing nature

The grass is unusually green this winter and snowdrops and primroses were in bloom as early as December. Bees have been enticed out of hives and storks failed to make their journey south. The unseasonably warm weather is causing confusion everywhere.

Data from the Environment Agency (ARSO) shows that 2022 was the warmest year on record in Slovenia with the average temperature reaching 10.8 degrees Celsius, almost two degrees above the 1981-2010 average. The average temperature was almost 0.1% above the previous record annual temperature measured in 2014.

It was warmer than...