Dahn Sarf, we have just had our first dusting of global warming. Fortunately it is turning to rain and slowly disappearing, at least in our neck of the woods.
Dahn Sarf, we have just had our first dusting of global warming. Fortunately it is turning to rain and slowly disappearing, at least in our neck of the woods.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Bloody funny, great hoohaa in the papers, giant freeze, dreadful weather etc etc.
So I read it to find they are expecting 1cm of snow!!!
Nearly choked on the tea laughing.
Can you imagine the kiniptions if they had Mt Baker’s 857″ total for last year?
Totters off for refill of tea, shaking head sadly.
we had our dusting in Kent this morning, now just rain.
CO: But you forget. That 1 cm is always “The wrong kind of snow”
Well yes, a sprinkling of the white stuff here too, Feeg. Very early this morning and unusually, exactly as forecast, the rest of the day was sunny.
No panic here, CO; for once it went according to plan. Nothing to worry about, YET!
While I can understand why it is that some countries which have far greater snowfall than little old England, are apt to ridicule our mother country for its failure to deal with its meagre powderings, I am not sure such ridicule is always justified. Look at this way. Imagine all public media in America say, started broadcasting and publishing in French. The country would grind to a halt as its citizens struggled to understand what was being said. The French and Quebecois, would laugh uproariously at the pathetic Yanquees for their failure to comprehend a language in which even their children are fluent.
It is a question of, ‘what is the norm?’
Norm is Dame Edna’s hubby. 😯
Issa true, Bearsy! Off message, I’m busy writing the last Chrissie cards for Blighty to go in the post on Monday.
OZ
For many years the norm used to be very cold winters, even in southern England, e.g. the Thames Fairs on the frozen Thames, and everybody coped, even without central heating. Then the climate warmed up (because of that big shiny thing in the sky and not because Granny burned an extra bucket of coal) and gradually, the precautions that used to be taken for the winter were abandoned. Now, as the climate appears to be getting colder again, the precautions that should always have been in place are needed but not there.