snow on the news

[bobtheduck]

the main headline on the news this morning was "its snowing" correct me if im wrong but this is a winter month? was this some freak weather event? are these reporters being paid to stand in coats in the snow telling us its snowing and to drive carefully? worthy news item

[littleoldme]

Sorry old chap, I live on the South coast. What snow would this be, then?

[jakesi]

Every year the same, 1 inch of the stuff and the media don't shut up. I bet the the rest of Europe laugh at us.

[Oneeyedvic]

better than the new item "seventeen dead due to careless driving in snow".........

Snow is not usual at the later end of February, it is after all the end of winter (Dec, Jan and Feb being winter months). And it is quite typical of the country that people do not prepare correctly and drive at stupid speeds in the snow.

Sad but true. - not enough boy / girl scouts in the world - Be Prepared

[kick3m0n]

and to be fair, that item of 'news' would have a greater and more immediate affect on viewers lives that day than any other story.it mattered more to me (in south east of Scotland) than 'Pope has tracheotomy' for example. 

[andy hughes]

i feel exactly the same! I was sitting in a stupour a couple of mornings ago, cereal consumption under way, when it dawned on me - I'm looking at a reporter standing out in the snow, telling me it's snowing in Kent, and then another somewhere in Yorkshire. Hello? I'm fifty years old, I know what snow is, just tell me it's snowing, I'll understand! Why it is classed as 'news' is a total mystery to me.

[secretsquiz]

"Snow is not usual at the later end of February"

it's funny how i remember the exact same thing happening about this time last year - and the same the year before that!

[kick3m0n]

In Scotland, snow is not UNusual at end February.  Up here we frequently assume that Jan and Feb will be worse (in terms of snow, ice, hail, temp etc) than Nov and Dec.  I'm born mid March, and in 33 years I've had 4 or 5 white birthdays - all over different parts of Scotland.

[Oneeyedvic]

Sorry, I was being more specific about where I live......in Norfolk last year there was snow in Februaury you are right, but in 2003, February was very dry and sunny with a recorded high in London of 15.7 degrees C on the 26th February. Snow in 2003 only really affected Northern Ireland and that was at the beginning of February. 2002 and 2001 were likewise dryish months, the snow in 2000 was mid Feb, not end of. (this refers to southern and eartern England - sorry Scotland)

And anyway, it is better to see snow on TV news than Charles & Camilla surely.

[kick3m0n]

agree re the Charles and Camilla Oneeyedvic, that's for sure!!

[rod]

I live on the south coast as well nice and sunny no snow as yet.

[FP]

February 1979 - I moved to Norfolk, Oneeyedvic, and it snowed and snowed and snowed until we were cut off by snowdrifts for several days.   In fact the snow didn't completely melt until well after Easter that year.  How's your end of the County this evening?  It's just wet and miserably here now on the North west end!

This is a typically English thread - talking about the weather?

[Oneeyedvic]

far too English......just taken the dog for a walk......at least its stopped raining.............

[eupraxia]

At least its doing something. I hate that dead Febuary weather we usually get.

Gray sky and nothing else

[smudge]

It's a bit milder here in Bedfordshire this evening - in fact it's the first night for a week that we haven't lit a fire! Roll on spring.

[eupraxia]

I'm with u smudge.

I'm just up the road from u.

[Romeo]

If we had a heatwave in February, now that WOULD be news. And also a bit worrying.

[kick3m0n]

I'd say it's quite a British thread......Scotland, Wales and Ireland talk about the weather a fair bit too - it's not an uniquely English trait.

[KebabMeister]

@Jakesi, yes, I think the rest of Europe do laugh at the British regarding snow!

I am British but I live in M�nich and I found it rather amusing watching UK news and their discussion about snow.  I think it's simply because snow is quite a rarity nowadays plus the UK are ill equipped to deal with it.  Here in M�nich we've had a ton of snow which lasts for a long time, then goes and then another bucket load comes.  There's loads of snow ploughs being used from the huge lorry style ones to small ride on mower style ones.  Luckily because it's nearly always sub-zero it doesn't turn into the horrible wet slush which is the main thing I hated about British snow!!! 

[Oneeyedvic]

Don't believe it - woken up to snow this morning - thought is was going to be getting better!

[SteveH75]

Saw this thread and HAD to add to it as it's something I have been laughing at for a while. I'm originally from the North Wales coast and I remember seeing snow twice, maybe three times in my life there. Sea air always kept it at bay. At the moment ... like KebabMeister, I'm out in Munich and we seem to have had consistently 2 foot of the stuff since January - and my train hasn't been late once (the one I get on ... not drive!) I know there was a problem one day when one broke in the main tunnel, but that wasn't anything to do with the weather. I've been looking at the coverage in the UK about all the snow and although I admit some places have it fairly deep, it seems every year the news make this a massive story. Quiet news days huh? I also lived in Scotland for a few years and I'm pretty sure I remember it snowing in August at one point ..... but Scotland is beautiful in any weather ..... which is lucky really!