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How we shivered in the last “real” cold winter

Children between masses of snow in Vomp in Tyrol.(Bild: Chronik Vomp)

Anyone complaining about the double-digit sub-zero temperatures in parts of Austria this weekend should think back to the winter of 1962/63. It wasn't just our country that was shivering back then.

"It was the last real cold winter in Central and Western Europe to date," says Günther Aigner, describing the three and a half memorable months of 1962/63. The researcher from Kitzbühel (Zukunft Skisport) focuses on ski tourism, but also analyzes meteorological extremes of the past.