In article ,
danny writes:
I think we are due a 89'90 type winter, so this year could be the one.

Well, January and February 1990 were both very mild and wet, whilst
December 1989 was unremarkable. It surely isn't too long since we had a
winter broadly similar to that?
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)