On 10/02/2016 22:08, George Booth wrote:
On 10/02/2016 21:50, Norman Lynagh wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:21:09 -0800 (PST), Richard Dixon
wrote:

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:15:13 UTC, Scott W wrote:

I'd not noticed just how mild this winter has been until I had a
count up of the air frosts this winter - there's currently fewer
than there was at this point in that other ridiculously mild winter
of 2013/14.

I'd be interested to see how this winter comes up against the mild
winters of the last 25 years or so in terms of dearth of air
frosts/ground frosts - e.g. 1989/90 westerly winter.

Richard

There's still a lot of winter left, Richard :-)


There certainly is. Oh look, it's The Telegraph to the rescue this time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weat...ter-blast.html


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"with temperatures between 0C and -3C, which could happen anywhere.”
He added: "In the northern part of Scotland, people will wake up to a
covering of snow on Thursday morning with accumulations of up to several
centimetres. A band of rain and snow will slowly move its way southwards
but it will peter out as it reaches central parts.""

Scary stuff eh! But perhaps we should change our attitude. At least us
old golden coldies. This probably is newsworthy in the context of the
winters of the last 35 years and that is probably the age of many of the
journalists writing this stuff. Perhaps we should be more tolerant and a
bit less cynical. :-)
Dave