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jbm writes:

"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?


It does. Thanks. As you're counting Easter as four days, I'm less
surprised. In my part of SE England, any snow over the four days of
Easter is a rarity, though possibly still a bit more common than snow at
Christmas. The only time I can recall lying snow over Easter here was on
Good Friday, 1975, following one of the mildest winters on record.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)