In article .com,
Weatherlawyer writes:
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I should have thought the best use one could make of such information
as was available to a sophisticated country was to tell parents to
make other plans to look after their children than pretend to assume
the mundane.

After some 20 or 30 years of very little snow in this country, I know
if I had children I should like to be at home with them whilst they
sample a singularly important phenomena such as their first snow fall.

Some parents may not be able to get off work at short notice, though.
Their children would surely be much safer at school than left to their
own devices.
--
John Hall Weep not for little Leonie
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench
Just think how it's improved her French. Harry Graham (1874-1936)