Climate Nature wakes up earlier again thanks to mild winter months
Nature has woken up earlier again this year and, according to meteorologists, has a head start of between one week and ten days. The reason for this is the mild winter months. January was 1.5 degrees too warm and February 1.7 degrees. March has also been exceptionally mild so far.
11.03.2025, 11:32
SDA
In recent years, January and February have usually been much too mild across Switzerland compared to the long-term average from 1991 to 2020, as the weather service Meteonews wrote in a press release on Tuesday. This year, the first ten days of March were even 2.5 degrees above the long-term average.
According to Meteonews, the extension of the growing season has a variety of effects, both positive and negative. Above all, it increases the risk of late frosts causing damage.
Despite the spring temperatures, the pollen count is currently only low to moderate, except in Thurgau and the Lake Constance region, according to the Swiss Allergy Center. The hazelnut bushes and alders are the first to bloom.
