On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:03:25 -0800 (PST), willie eckerslike
wrote:

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


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?

Half the problem is that the yellow awareness 'warnings' aren't really
warnings at all, they are just "keep an eye on tomorrow's forecast"
bulletins. They should call them something less dramatic than warnings
IMO, to lessen the "cry wolf" syndrome.

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Dave
Fareham