On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:08:02 +0000
John Hall wrote:

In message , Eskimo Will
writes
I have been reliably informed by my elderly neighbour that the great
US blizzard due to hit today will then strike us in a week's time.
He firmly believes it and says he has been right in the past. Bless.

Will

Surely everyone knows that it's three weeks? At least ISTR that's
what my father always said.

Three days is what I remember. That could happen occasionally, not
because of the surface system crossing the Atlantic in three days but
because of changes in the upper-air pattern taking that long to develop.
If the snow was associated with an upper trough over the eastern US
with a southerly developing near Newfoundland, a downstream trough could
extend south near the UK.

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