I've just been looking at the charts for the second half of January in
1947 - thanks to the excellent archive at:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsslpeur.html
- and the chart for the 17th January caught my eye. If we were to see an
identical chart today, how many posters here would say: "I'm writing
this winter off"?

--
John Hall
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)