I'm afraid the goalposts for defining cold have probably moved forever. Only
a small part of the population can clearly remember truly harsh weather. It
seems lots of the media and a fair few others are already trying to "make"
this into a cold winter to justify their previous headlines/predictions when
clearly so far it hasn't. We now have couple of days of "Arctic or
Siberian"(sic) weather and then I would imagine a spell of westerly
dominated weather. It would then take pretty much all of Feruary to be snowy
and near freezing to justify such claims.

Dave
"Ian Currie" wrote in message
. uk...
I have heard several references of late on forecasts I quote " now a very
cold Continent". Well this is not really so.
Current temperatures mid afternoon Warsaw 1C, Berlin 1C, to the southeast
Budapest at 1C, Vienna 1C and to the north east Helsinki minus 2C. Moscow
is
chilly with minus 17C and even lower in parts of the city but as yet this
air is some distance from us.
Now similar references were made in January 1987 and things were a little
different- Helsinki minus 30C, Copenhagen minus 13C, Berlin minus11C,
Prague minus 17C, Moscow minus 27C, Budapest minus 17C, Munich -16C etc
at
lunchtime on the 12th. Now that was cold.

Ian Currie -Coulsdon
www.Frostedearth.com