On 28/11/2010 17:06, Trevor Harley wrote:
It is still snowing in the Sidlaws. All outdoors life has ceased. We're
under about a foot of snow, I think, and yet more is coming down.

Yet the Met Office page is still warning me to "Be prepared". How bad do
things have to be before the orange turns red and I have to take action?

Not, though, that there is now any action I could take.



I share most of the group's belief that UKMO's warning system is pretty
dumbed now and generally annoying in the amount of false warnings they
put out. We've had days of warnings for possible snow in West Sussex
(inlcuded in the SE warnings)and yet it was pretty clear that it was
going to amount to nothing...

However, it right that the warnings for your area are still classed as
"Be prepared" because what is a happening is a slow, progressive, change
in the weather - ie you have snow and you are getting more.
I would a expect a "Take Action" warning when there is a sudden and
significant change in the weather which is about to happen. An example I
would use for this are the "EMERGENCY" Warnings which are issued from
time to time....