"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
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So, if the terrorists, 'flu pandemic, global climate change or extended
credit don't get you ... get set for the 'Arctic Blast'!

http://www.express.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=696
(Makes you wonder how we survived this far don't it?)

Incidentally, it's going to be interesting to see how the 'White
Christmas' thing is going to be verified this year with the wholesale
closure of most of the old Weather Centres. As they use the nonsensical
'one flake doth a White Christmas make' rule, there going to be room for a
lot of argy-bargy when people turn up after Christmas to claim their
winnings ;-)

Well I don't quite see how else they can define it, if the weather report
for the day mentions snow, then snow it is.

As for the article, well the Daily Express, what a surprise!
You could practically take the thing apart paragraph by paragraph.

-14C in 'exposed' Highland locations? Big deal. Though if they
are talking about frost they probably mean the 'sheltered glens'
we keep hearing about on the TV forecasts.
I would suspect -14C would be around the average lowest of
the year reading for Altnaharra. If it happened in the centre of
Glasgow then that would be another matter entirely.

Frost and snow and brief cold spells in winter, whoever would
have thought it?

Oh and the last paragraph is wrong too. We are *not* the 4th
richest country in the world. We have the 4th largest *economy*.
Or at least we did have until very recently when we were
overtaken by China.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl