John Hall wrote:
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"Martin Rowley" wrote in
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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.


Any air from the East is Siberian apparently. So Siberia must be in the
North Sea somewhere.


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