UK to get worse snow storms in 18 years...
I lived in the UK from 1991 (just after the snow fall mentioned below) - 1994 and I saw snow only once...and that was less than a cm....
Britain is braced for the most widespread snow storms in 18 years after the Met Office classed tomorrow’s Arctic blast as an extreme weather event.
A snowfall of up to 10cm was forecast for most of the eastern England tonight – with wind speeds of 30mph and temperature lows of minus 6C expected tomorrow.
Tom Defty, Head of Forecasting Operations at MetService, said: “The worst of the snow will arrive in Kent during Monday morning before spreading North and West to the rest of England during the afternoon.”
The Met Office said it is expecting the widest covering of snow seen since February 1991, when 51cm of snow fell in Yorkshire and 15cm in London. This winter is already recorded as the coldest in 13 years, with temperatures plunging to lows of minus 13C during a three-week freeze during January.
posted by GayandRight @ 4:41 PM
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It's plus four Celcius in Toronto and sunny.
It was +6c (+9c in the sun) in Milton today - extreme west end of Toronto area
Man, those Brits don't know how lucky they have it. I'd love it if 10 cm of snow was considered extreme here and if minus 13 was considered a temperature plunge into the deep freeze.
I took advantage of the relatively mild weather in Southern Ontario today to chip away most of the thick ice that's been building up on my driveway over the past few weeks. Kind of my own version of manmade forced glacial recession.
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