allionne:

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existingcharactersdiehorribly:

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Ah, nonnie, that’s a question I asked myself many times. It seems like the Hannibal!verse has 1 month of autumn and 11 months of winter. I’m afraid I can’t tell you the exact time of the year when the finale takes place; it could be anywhere from late autumn to early spring. Since we’re already seen snow in some previous episodes, my guess is somewhere in February, maybe even March. It looks cold, but definitely not Season 2 cold. 

We know that filming for season 3 began on October 20, 2014, in Toronto [x], so The Wrath of the Lamb was definitely filmed during winter. 

From this article: “In winter, it is cold and snows often. During the winter months (December, January and February), the temperature in most of Toronto is usually below 0°C, day and night. Temperatures can drop below -25°C. Snow can be on the ground from the middle of December until the middle of March.”

Now let’s take a look at some screencaps to help you with weather description / characters’ clothing.

Here we’ve got The Leather Jacket™ and Reba seems to be wearing an autumn coat. It looks warm, but not too warm. 

Then we have Will with his dress shirt and light jacket, as opposed to the long coat + scarf + gloves combo from season 2. 

Looks pretty dead and barren. There’s no snow though and not much wind either.

Jack is wearing what looks like a light coat as well.

Here we have Marlana looking gorgeous in their coats too, some fog, clouds, but still no sight of snow. You’d expect the kiddo to wear some sort of hat if it were super cold. Looks like it’s not THAT cold. 

And finally, more clouds and autumnish tones. 

In conclusion:

• could be late autumn, winter, or early spring
• there’s no snow
• the plants are dormant 
• it’s cloudy
• there’s not much wind
• cold, but not extremely cold
• everyone looks gorgeous in their light coats or jackets 

I hope this helps, nonnie! If anyone can provide more concrete information, your addition to this post would be welcome. 

If we accept the dates on the Buffalo Citizen (Saturday, Jan 24)/Baltimore Digest articles (Monday, Jan 26) then the Leeds murder took place no later than Jan 23. Jack visits Will the second day after (he tells Will the murder in Buffalo was the night before last, a day short of a lunar month) and either hands off Hannibal’s letter or Hannibal caught Federal Express to get Will the letter with the Buffalo clipping. Jack says to Hannibal he read the letter before deciding to send it on to Will; I do think we’re supposed to accept that he reads it the same night after Jack visits. 

That put the Dragon’s attack on Molly and Walter no later than February 22 (ep 311). If we generously give them one week each to get to 312 and 313, that puts TWOTL around March 9. 

I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to work out the timelines and seasons, for similar reasons. I have convoluted notes on the subject but it boils down to this for the seasons:

S1-S2 = October to April
End S2 = April
Hannibal’s surrender at Wolf Trap = February
The bluff = March

I’m going with this for my own head canon but I’m aware that the Hannibal universe is a tricky place when it comes to timey-wimey stuff! Glad to see that it more or less fits in with what @existingcharactersdiehorribly has provided, though! 🙂

Reblogging (again) for this info 🙂 Thank you dear!