On 18 Dec, 12:10, Alan Greig wrote:
So England and Northern Ireland get red warnings but nowwhere in
Scotland has ever got above orange -despite the weather having been
worse and the transport minister being forced to resign.

I suspect they must be waiting for a 200 metre tsunami to hit Scotland
before the Met Office even considers going red.

On 18/12/2010 11:18, mattmaz wrote:

Red "take action" warning issued by Met Office :
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/p...ent/weathermap

LOL but that is because you are all Eskimos up there anyway :-) And
all 5 residents of Scotland are on this newsgroup anyway! (Before
getting shot down in flames - I am only JOKING!)
Seriously though - I wondered the same. The only thing I can remotely
think of is the extent of people potentially effected due to the over
population in the southeast ? It might get worse up north in terms of
snowfall depths, but snow is snow. We had 11 inches a couple of weeks
back, which was enough to snow my parents in for 4 days near
Canterbury. (Usual story - let's send a plough down the road to
compact the snow on the hills even more....). As for the trains -
well, it's all live rail down here - bit of ice & snow on the live
rail and you can forget it!

Presently 0.1 deg C here, with heavy snow. I must admit I've not seen
it as heavy as this here for a good few years.

Matt, Ashford, Kent