I was talking to my English-born mother the other day about the weather in Batemans Bay and in England. She said that while it was very unusual for this much snow over so much of the UK so early, it's just a reversion to older weather patterns.
For many years there was hardly any snow in the southern part of England, and certainly not before Christmas. But she did point out that when my parents were married in February, it snowed in Wolverhampton but they were confident that it would be OK for their honeymoon in London. Guess what? Yep- snow in London in February.
Andrew Bolt traces recent trajectories in warming-biased Met. Office projections
An interesting trajectory in British reporting on global warming:
Children just aren’t going to know what snow is. --Dr David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000
Why did the Met Office forecast a “mild winter”? –Boris Johnson, Major of London, The Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2010
December 2010 is “almost certain” to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office. –The Independent, 18 December 2010
The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, is seeking the opinion of the chief scientific adviser about whether the government should be planning for more severe winters in future. – BBC News, 19 December 2010
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