http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Snow due in six weeks en Tue, 19 May 2026 09:25:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232359 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:21:38 +0000 Fountainbridge 232359@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Daily Express were predicting the same last year and the year before. Also predicted 3 months of 30 degree plus heat this summer.</p> <p>And yes, one day they may be correct </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232283 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:28:26 +0000 paddyirish 232283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@threefromleith - thanks for that- wonderful! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232281 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:23:19 +0000 threefromleith 232281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/apr/09/daily-express-weather-warning-beware-a-shower-of-extreme-inaccuracy">the Grauniad</a> in 2015:</p> <p>"Express weather is not like normal weather. It’s not the weather we experience, or at least not yet. Express weather is what you might encounter on Mars or Venus: extreme heat or extreme cold interspersed with wild storms.</p> <p>That its predictions are as contradictory as they are bizarre and that they seldom come to pass seems to deter their repetition not one jot. The newspaper appears to assume that its readers have thistledown memories: no recollection of the predictions it made even a few days before. Given that people continue to buy this rubbish, it may, unfortunately, be right.</p> <p>So, on 16 March, its front page told us “Britain set for HOTTEST Easter EVER as temperatures to rocket to 80F in holiday heatwave”. Needless to say, the story was helpfully illustrated with pictures of young women in bikinis, in case we could not otherwise imagine what a heatwave might be like. On 26 March, this public service was followed by “Easter weather forecast: TEN inches of snow, gales and plummeting temps.” The same journalist, Nathan Rao, wrote both articles.</p> <p>No winter approaches without predictions in the Express of Snowmageddon. In November 2012, Rao’s headline warned us: “Coldest Winter in 100 Years on Way”. In November 2013, he promised “100 DAYS OF HEAVY SNOW: Britain now facing worst winter in SIXTY YEARS warn forecasters”. In October 2014, a story by the same author told readers “Winter 2014 set to be ‘coldest for century’. Britain faces ARCTIC FREEZE in just weeks”. In November, another article of his was headlined “POLAR VORTEX WARNING: Latest winter weather models show UK faces MONTHS of heavy snow”. And so it went on all the way until the end of January, when the front page blared: “Britain on RED alert: ‘Displaced polar vortex’ to unleash crippling snowstorms next week”.</p> <p>Needless to say, it was all bollocks with bells on. Temperatures for central England in every month of the winter just passed were slightly higher than average. There were no abnormal snow events, and no plagues of frogs, boils, lobsters or aliens. All rather disappointing in fact." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232223 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:22:38 +0000 wingpig 232223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eventually correct if they keep predicting it to be six weeks away or there'll eventually be snow six weeks after late September?</p> <p>I might have a spare couple of hours at the weekend to stick my new* fattish spikey tyres on a spare wheel to see if they'll fit under my mudguards.</p> <p>*In a wardrobe since about February 2015. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232220 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:11:44 +0000 Min 232220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eventually they are going to be correct about this. They just have to keep trying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232209 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:40:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 232209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tabloid predicts big freeze. Hoar Sun? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232207 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:35:20 +0000 steveo 232207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh dear, this thread is about to slide away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232203 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:26:34 +0000 paddyirish 232203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdaneilp</p> <p>Icy what you did there </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232201 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:24:12 +0000 dougal 232201@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does that mean the sun is going away? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232177 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:36:29 +0000 jdanielp 232177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Snow joke. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16953#post-232166 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:45:11 +0000 gembo 232166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>According to sun</p> <p>Express coldest winter for fifty years</p> <p>BBC for 100 years (oh wait BBC saying it is all rubbish) </p>