Deeaa, you're quite right about things warming up over the years. Lots of high temperature records being broken every year around the world. Lows...not so much. For areas closer to the Arctic like Finland, the effects are quite dramatic. One important concept here is the overall rate of change rather than absolute temperatures. For small rates of change, ecosystems and economies have the time to adapt to the new conditions. Large rates of change though don't leave time for adaptation and have serious consequences.

For my area, while the summer's aren't all that much hotter, the winters certainly are with the lawn typically starting to really grow in February. The number of freezing days and nights here are much less than when I was a kid. We seem to get more intense rainfall too.