Comparing to times of my childhood, this year winter comes about a month late. We had a long, rainy, damp autumn with nearly no sunlight - with snow everything is so much more comfortable.

Yup, thinking about it, it is very likely that because of global climate change and other (releated) issues is it rather likely that we will see a major crisis of the entire civilization in the coming decades. It's silly that in Finland I hear some people saying that "oh, but global warming is good for Finland, because then we can grow more plants and get more yield from our fields." - but I'm afraid it won't work that way. Extreme weather conditions in other parts of the globe might just so easily lead to food prices skyrocketing on global market - which would trigger serious social unrest, and we just can't pretend that Finland would somehow be unaffected by that.