Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Oct 1, 11:27 pm, mumford wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd6Du...eature=related

Thanks for that. Ian MacAskill was regarded as a bit wacko by the
standards of the day but that forecast was one for grown-ups. It
didn't pander to the notion that it had to be entertaining and was
informative and useful. It didn't have to contend with childish gee-
whizz graphics but actually showed where the weather was coming from.
The personality of the presenter was only in evidence as earnestness
as opposed to current-day ****tishness. Some things really were
better in the past - it's not just me getting old(er). The science
gets better - the presentation becomes infantilised. What an irony!
Thank you, BBC, you fluffy-brained morons, for assisting in the rather
obvious decline of our media culture.
That day (presumably 7th Feb) was one of my "big ones". The min
was -11.0°C and the max -5.8°C, with 22 cm snow depth the following
morning. It is the lowest max in my record (27 yrs) apart from the
freakish -9.2°C on 12 Jan 1987.

He even told us to 'wrap up well' but with a wind chill of minus 16C
he really meant it!
But was it true *Siberian* air though, I believe that this is pretty rare
in the UK.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl