On Thursday, 18 February 2016 00:21:35 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

This has happened every winter for years and is seen as a proxy for over fearful weather warnings when in fact the is hardly any reflection of reality. In all honesty you and others see the warnings all the time and do you think they reflect the actual weather that was experienced

But what do you do when, say, there's a 10% chance of roads becoming treacherous? Ignore altogether? They're on a hiding to nothing (or to 10%).

Richard