On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:19:29 -0000, "GKN"
wrote:

Paul.
The point I am trying to make is what percentage of the population lives at
Aviemore, and why report on the coldest place anyways. It is hardly a true
representation of the situation countrywide.
Yes there has been some difficult travelling conditions around the country
over the last ten days but the attitude always seems to be, lets go for the
worst case we can report when 90% of the population hardly ever see these
conditions where they actually live.

Quite what the population of Aviemore has to do with the lowest
temperature I really don't know.

We've all been subjected to endless reports of the 2 inches of snow in
London so I suppose that kept you happy.

By the way I had to laugh at the radio reports this morning describing
the bad weather in the "southern half of Britain", which turned out to
be that part of Britain from the West Midlands of England southwards.
That part of the British mainland is the southern fifth - goodness
knows what proportion it would be if the Northern Isles were also
taken into consideration.