"Norman" wrote in message
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Col wrote:


"John Hall" wrote in message
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I think it's more likely to be simple ignorance. I suspect that they
think that "blizzard" just means heavy snow.

Yes, the general public think just that.
I had to laugh though at the reporter on NW Tonight
who was high up on Saddleworth Moor.
It was sunny and it is true that there was some blowing snow
around as it was pretty windy.
Yes, conditions were bleak but he still called it a 'blizzard'.

I had to laugh at the BBC reporter outside the village of Mountain,
Yorkshire
standing in what looked to be about 6-8 inches of snow saying "as you can
see
there's several feet of snow".

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

....and there was a silly woman on the BBC News at lunchtime talking about
lorries which had knife-jacked.
:-)
Roger