Howard Neil wrote:
On 10/02/2013 09:06, willie eckerslike wrote:

In the "old days" when folks could see a cm of snow on the ground and
carry on regardless, these marginal situations made little difference
to the tone of the media weather forecasts.

Now, with several generations of 'schoolboys who never grew up' in
charge, the threat of three flakes of snow anywhere below 1500ft has
the entire country whipped up into a frenzy by the media; and everyone
wants to know precisely when and where the three flakes are going to
fall, so that they can close schools, libraries, road distribution
depots, etc. for the following 48 hours and get another holiday from
work.


[Pedant mode on]

In the "old days" folk would see half an inch of snow on the ground and
carry on regardless.;-)

[Pedant mode off]

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This does seem to be the case plus the fact that anyone under 30 has
rarely seen blizzards and drifting snow so have no yardstick. I don't
think the models have helped either. Before the layman wouild just go by
the temperature, as of now it is 3.8C, so it is raining. If it gets
colder it will snow!
Dave, S.Essex