"Chris Smith" wrote in message
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Martin Rowley wrote:
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 ;-)



So it's going to get cold? It's called Winter. Why do the papers get so
worked up about it? Oh, I remember - so they can sell more papers :-/

Amazing how perfectly normal winter conditions get hyped up into
something exceptional.
I am now awaiting the first person at work to come up to me and
say that we are in for a 'severe' or 'bitter' winter.
My eyes will roll heaven-ward and I will allow myself a little sigh.

I will gently probe them as to where they heard this revalation.
Of course they won't know where they heard it, let alone which
particular organisation was responsible. It's just something they
heard in the media somewhere so it *must* be true.

The general public simply don't understand that these predictions
usually don't come from the Met Office, yet they seem to treat
them as if they are something 'official'.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl