On Saturday, 14 March 2015 14:18:21 UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 13/03/2015 11:28, the pathetic trainspotting anorak wrote:
Late yesterday, and through the early hours of this morning, media weather forecasters were falling over themselves to use the lazy catch-all get out clause of "hill snow".

But what does that mean to the public?

How about 'It's going to be a cold old day so wrap up warm'.

Why when it is going to be cold or rainy the day always has to be old?

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

It's a cold old day but only "out there" just in case you were thinking of wearing bobble hat and gloves in the living room.

I haven't got much of a problem with "hill snow". It means the precipitation is on the borderline between rain and snow and is not easy to forecast. In a coldish winter we get quite a bit of it here. Tricky old stuff.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 557 ft/169 m.