"Steve @ The UK Speedtrap Guide" wrote in
message ...
Watching the news tonight (Central) they are spending far to much time
talking about the weather.. They have even setup a phone line called
"Flakewatch" where you can send a text in to say you have seen a flake of
snow.. one woman was quoted as saying she had seen 12 flakes in
Shropshire..

Now I do like a bit of snow, but the media hype is really starting to get
on
my nerves..

Steve


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I'm just ever glad I stopped buying any newspaper over 1 year ago precisely
because of the increasing hype by any of them over anything. It's bad enough
having to hear second hand about their current hype over a bit of ordinary
winter weather without having it thrust in my face as the front page story
in a newspaper. I hate to think how they'd handle '63, '79 or even the short
cold spells of '87/'91 now!.

1991 was bad enough at the time, even in the broadsheets, for a couple of cm
of snow which did not survive the whole of the following weekend where I was
at the time in Kilmarnock.

BTW, here in Malvern, clear sky until about 15 mins ago, some cloud
spreading from N. The 21:00 satellite picture and 20:00 radar suggest this
may be the leading edge of the main disturbance. At least the clear sky will
have lead to some ground cooling ahead so what falls may lie rather than
melting, only to re-freeze behind the disturbance in the clearing sky.

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Pete

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