The changing presence of snow due to global warming affects how people relate to snow and winter. This paper will discuss meanings and memories of snow related to cultural constructions of seasons. In this paper I will present results from a questionnaire made in collaboration with the Folklife Archives at Lund University, Sweden. 91 persons living in mainly southern Sweden answered a set of questions regarding experiences of snow. Questions regarding how snow and winter are remembered and talked about will be discussed in relation to time and geography – factors that are crucial in telling stories of snow and winter and understanding how seasons come to matter. 

 The material showed that snow and winter season mattered for the participants, who wrote about snow in what can be categorized as “past, present and future snow”. The different temporalities of snow can be connected to emotions and affects regarding what was expressed as “real winter” (snow and cold). In what ways can the thoughts on snow and winter be understood in terms of eco-sorrow, solastalgia or climate angst? 

 The idea of a “real” Swedish/Nordic winter is that snow and cold is present, and a winter with snow can be seen as a part of a national identity.  How does southern Swedes experience and negotiate the idea of “real” winter from a perspective with less and less days with snow?