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fred writes:
Agreed, bit we remain the laughing stock of Canada and Norway for our
"inability" to cope with such small amounts of snow and these countries will
have undergone similar patterns of change in the last couple of decades.

But those countries get severe winters every winter, and so have to take
whatever measures are necessary to combat them. Those measures cost a
lot of money. It wouldn't make sense to spend so much in this country,
where severe conditions - at least in the lowland south - are a rarity.

The question of how much to spend is a difficult one. Are future winters
predominantly going to be like the ones we have become used to over the
last ten years or so, or might we get a reversion to the much higher
frequency of severe winters that we had between 1978 and 1987? Without a
reliable way of forecasting conditions for several years ahead, the best
that councils and the government can do is to assume that conditions in
the near future will be the similar to in the recent past, until there's
evidence to the contrary.
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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)