It’s February. We tend to get cold weather in January and February, even into March in these northern climes. Since Christmas, we’ve had repeated warnings of the ‘exact date‘ a new beast from the east will strike. Great swathes of snow that will be ‘endless.’ Bear in mind that only a few years ago, warble gloaming was telling us that snow was a thing of the past. And again, today, the same predictions.
The Met Office has warned Brits to brace for a “big freeze” as temperatures are set to plunge to a chilly -10C.
Weather experts predict that the frosty conditions experienced in Nordic countries this winter will soon hit the UK, with snow expected from next week. This icy blast from Scandinavia is likely to bring snow flurries to Scotland and northern England from mid-next week.
They have been saying this every week for the past month and every week for the past month they have been wrong, so I’ll take their predictions with a pinch of salt. The Met Office and the experts are a waste of time and money, best ignored.
Yes, we might well get some snow between now and Easter. It being winter in the UK, this is perfectly normal. The usual pain in the arse for the time of the year. Now, can we stop with the hysterical screeching? I’m beyond bored.
Paul Homewood revisits old newspaper reports about nasty winter weather from time to time. This amply demonstrates that there is nothing remarkable about any of the winter weather that we get now. The 1950s through to the 1980s generally saw much harsher winter weather. Of course the milder winters that we have had since the 1990s suited the warming narrative really quite well, if the weather starts getting rougher again a new way of blaming CO2 will have to be found.
A flurry?
Thought you could get them anytime at the Golden Arches.
I am old enough to remember 1947 when the sea froze, 1963 similar.
1981 it rained so much that crops could not be gathered. Tractors could not move in the mud.
1976 was a scortcher. Crops did not grow, just frizzled. Stand-pipes were used to provide drinking water.
No hum.
“1963 similar”
I’ve got childhood memories of snow still piled up opposite my Grandad’s house in April.
Citing their past performance, couldn’t we take action against the so-called Met Office under the Trades Descriptions Act?
They soon worked out that the label ‘global warming’ meant they were only betting on one horse, a nag which could easily stumble and expose the whole shoddy game, so they quickly amended it to ‘climate change’, an each-way bet in a two-horse race, a can’t-lose punt that you won’t get at William Hill’s. Whatever the minor nuances of normal weather patterns product, it can all be claimed as ‘climate change’ and then blamed on whatever they want us to stop doing or to pay more to keep doing.
I’ve never quite worked out how the last Ice Age managed to end, or any of the many other Ice Ages for that matter, the climate warmed enough to melt all that mile-thick ice without any help whatsoever from any fossil-fuel power-stations, internal combustion engines or indeed any significant human input at all. Bloody clever this climate change stuff, brighter than any of our politicians who actually swallow all that green crap.