TrueLackofWhitening:

Today's kids don't have the memories of past winters, so in a sense
they don't know what they are missing

Indeed. Hence my anger.

I shouldn't even be here!:-o :-( :-(


Rupert the Bear:

Unless we see The Azores High move Southwards

Which is increasingly possible as the SOLAR MINIMA nears - is it not?

,or the Much talked about
Gulf Stream Shut-down

I wouldn't honestly get too excited about that one.;-) :-o :-(

,That it as far as deep Snow-cover is concerned
for the South at least at low levels-(

Really? The South-EAST seems to have done really well out of the past
few years, with even Bournemouth getting some near-annual, actually
quite deep, snowcover now, or so I hear! The South-WEST meanwhile
remains just as sad and as pitifully snowless as ever, the 2004 winter
bringing the snowiest weather since 1996 to parts of Cornwall, Devon,
and Jersey, notwithstanding.

If anything, it's the North-WEST that is *really* suffering out of
this, sans, as always, Cumbria, and the Carlisle area of the country, I
think.:-o :-( :-(

By contrast, during the mid-1990s cold period, the winters throughout
the North were exceptionally memorable - February 1994, anyone?:-o The
South meanwhile always suffered collectively, from Land's End of Dover.

Compare, therefo

Mid-1990s:
-North-East England: cold,
-North-West England: cold,
-South-East England: mild,
-South-West England: mild.

Mid-2000s:
-North-East England: cold,
-North-West England: mild,
-South-East England: cold,
-South-West England: mild.

:-(

:-(

D.