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Gavin Staples writes:
This had the mechanism to be an amazing winter so soon after December
1981 but the rest of the winter bored your socks off and it fell out of any
chance of being severe despite these 2 wonderful cold spells.

You're hard to please.

In spite of the mild end of January and whole of February, I think I
would rate 1981-2 as my second most memorable winter after 1962-3, even
ahead of 1978-9.
--
John Hall

You can divide people into two categories:
those who divide people into two categories and those who don't