On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 at 20:12:56, Col wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

Now you can dismiss this as the ranting of a bitter Northerner if you
wish, but hear me out...

I am getting increasingly irritated by the media's response that yesterday's
snow was the 'Worst in the UK for almost 20 years'.
Actually it wasn't.
It was the worst in London and selected areas of the SE, mainly to
the south of London and especially the North Downs.
So only a tiny part of the country had it's 'Worst for almost 20 years'.

I'm assuming the '18 years ago' fall they refer to was that of 7th/8th
Feb 1991, as that was worse (here at least) than that of Dec'90.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)