On 3 Feb, 22:52, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Joe Egginton" wrote in message

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Col wrote:
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 not complaining about the amount of media coverage given to this
event, clearly this area has millions of people and the disruption caused
was very severe.

What annoys is the casual assumption that because *London* was involved,
the rest of the UK somehow had to be affected in the same manner.
Had a similarly sized area in NW England been affected by a polar low
giving an equivalent amount of snow, nobody would have claimed it
was the UK's worst snowfall in almost 20 years.
It would have been reported as merely the worst snowfall in NW England
for 20 years.

That is our burden living in the provinces.

--
Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

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I do agree - but you know what the media's like. Do we have to drag it up
every bloody time there is some different to usual weather down here. We are
not spoilt like you Northerners. Thank God they showed the tornado off the
Cornish coast and didn't call it the dreaded m*ni tornado else we'd have had
the SW lot and the tornado lot on our case ;-)

Actually, I didn't even know the 'mini tornado' had been on the main
news. (I did see 14cm of snow near Land's End, actually just above St
Just, reported.) The sea surface was disturbed below it, but I
wouldn't call it a water spout. For those vaguely interested the
tornado was filmed from Chapel Carn Brea above Lands End airport. I
think they only reason it got on the news was as a by-product of the
snow reporting.

I once saw 2 water spouts in Mount's Bay, just about a mile out to
sea, they were very impressive.

Funnel clouds to seem common down here, I've seen several, couple of
photos at www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/Aug2006Storms.PDF when there
were funnel clouds on consecutive days. Also a few tornados have done
some damage in recent years, near Zennor, near St. Buryan, and on the
Lizard.

Graham
Penzance

www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/