On Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:05:54 AM UTC, John Hall wrote:
In article ,

willie eckerslike writes:

If you look closely at the warnings areas, you will see that the

great swathe covering S and SW England is for ice and not snow.



Well, there's a novelty. Ice in January, at night.

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But wet roads and pavements freezing can create very dangerous

conditions. A frost after a dry day isn't much of a problem, but a frost

following a wet one is.


I know this, you know this - and I suspect that many millions of other people know this.

Is it necessary to have blanket warnings for half the country, just to tell people what they know? Just so that the media can have a "field day" exaggerating everything to extremes?

Sorry, I know that I am being a kind of Devils Advocate here, but do not the proliferation of ordinary warnings reduce the impact of severe warnings?