"John Hall" wrote in message
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I'm unclear. Do you mean that a white Easter is twelve times as likely
as a white Christmas - which I find hard to believe - or that the
bookies will offer 12-1 against a white Easter (in which case it's
longer odds rather than shorter)?
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During my lifetime, I have only ever experienced one white Christmas in
England. I have, however, experienced 12 (or 13, I've lost count) white
Easters. I'm certainly not offering anything like a scientific study on
this, since the figures are a bit distorted, since Xmas is only one day
(25th Dec), whereas my interpretation of "Easter" is 4 days (Good Friday
through Easter Monday). To further confound the situation, my experience in
Scotland is 4 white Christmases out of 4. (Infer what you will out of that,
but in my experience every Xmas is a White Xmas north of the Border.)

What I was trying to say was that in my experience a white Easter is 12
times more likely than a white Xmas in England.

Does that clear things up for you?

jim, Northampton