In article ,
John Hall writes:
In article ,
Succorso writes:
Depressing isn't it? This has happened soooo many times now, it can't
just be a "chance" happening - it really is warmer now, and those
Northerlies we used to have that delivered reliable snow at 0c, now
deliver sleet, hail and rain at 4 to 6c.
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I guess that's what you'd expect if the ice edge is further north than
it used to be, and if the sea to the south of it is a degree or two
warmer.

I should add that, even in the 1960s, my memories of northerlies are
that - in the south - maxima were commonly about 2-3C, and that maxima
as low as 0C were more associated with easterlies.
--
John Hall "George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder." E.C.Bentley (1875-1956)