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... yes indeed: just waiting for the first use of the phrase " .... an
icy blast all the way from Siberia"!


... Thursday, 0910Z: Johnnie Walker on Radio 2 ... " freezing winds all
the way from Siberia": presumably quoting from a newspaper.

I heard Dan Corbett, who should know better, use almost the identical
phrase on a Radio 4 forecast a week or two ago when referring to the
cold snap between Christmas and New Year. But I believe that most
Meteorologists nowadays tend to have an academic background in physics
rather than in geography, so maybe he doesn't know where Siberia is.
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)