Has Europe Lost Its Winter?

This winter has resulted in record high, by a relatively big margins, temperatures across Europe   (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/05/truly-extreme-winter-2019-20-in-europe-by-far-hottest-on-record). Most striking is the observation that the temperature this year was almost 3.5 degrees Celsius above the winter average seen between 1981 and 2010, so things appear to be  accelerating. It's not just the inconvenience of the loss of the ice wine crop of grapes or the need to import snow for winter sport events that should concern us. It's actually a striking reminder of how much needs to be done in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to return to safer values.