In Southern Sweden you might very well not get snow at all for years.
Lol no! We've always had snow every year for the 23 years I've lived in the far south. Sure some years it's only been a little and just for a few weeks, but the idea that we are most often salvaged from the power of snow for years down here is as faulty as the idea that there are Polar Bears roaming the streets of Sundsvall. 
In fact while we don't get much snow in Denmark, there haven't been one year the last 33 year without snow.
That's almost as long as it has been since we last had snowcover where I live.
