The early warnings of very severe weather towards the end of last week were
grossly overdone. OK, there's been a dusting of snow and its a bit chilly
in the wind ( so what ). I remember in the early to mid 80's having to walk
from where I lived in Gillingham to Rochester Airport 3 miles away through
6-10 inches of snow and sub zero temps. In Warden Bay today we we ended up
with about 1cm of snow which had melted and re-frozen.

Shaun Pudwell.

"danny" wrote in message
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Generally speaking the forecasts have been very poor, but most people in
this newsgroup have a decent understanding, and the slagging off has been
from a minority, and not regulars of this newsgroup.
Nice try Simon.
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"Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk wrote in message
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Various denizens of uk.sci.weather may have given the impression that
the
Met Office was talking nonsense and falsely hyping snowfall this week.

These wretches would like unreservedly to apologise and would like to
reassure all and sundry that there was not one scintilla of a truth in
any
of the unfair and premature slagging off of the Met Office and BBC
weather
forecasts which had correctly predicted snow.