"fred" wrote in message
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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.


Well we can equally have a good laugh at others as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0mfpiCfjDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOXkqrLwRFQ

I was in Norway last February and the one thing I noticed was that walking
on snow in subzero temperatures is very easy to do - it is not slippy. In
the UK, snow tends to fall when the temperature is near or slightly above
freezing so the snow immediatly starts thawiing into a slushy mess which
becomes like a skating rink, especially after the cars have compacted the
snow down hard.