On Saturday, 25 May 2013 09:39:43 UTC+1, Col wrote:
Lawrence13 wrote:



Well I was just winding the ante up as I do get annoyed by people who

always raise this same argument. I watched Carol Driftwood the other

day talking about rain in the Grampians or something and equally

thought that was just PC old tosh. Honestly does it matter; we have

literally wall to wall access to weather now , not like 490 years ago

when you had three TV channels, radio and newspapers and then our

appetite for all weather things was never sated and I bet like me

many kept news paper clippings and weather reports.



I used to cut the weather maps out of the Guardian.

So obviously they had a left wing bias but I didn't have any choice

as it was the paper my parents had delivered.

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Col



Bolton, Lancashire

160m asl

Snow videos:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

No worries Col

Weather forecasting was free from politics in those days. I actually started keeping a scrap book for my cuttings. In fact somewhere in the loft I have Piers Corbyn's first mention in the Telegraph. It was a small piece in Dec IIRC, 1980 where he was at it then predicting a very severe winter which in reality was boringly benign. However a year later he would have been spot on. Maybe he didn't realise the clocks went back and got his forecast a year out.