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Snow due in six weeks

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  • Started 7 years ago by gembo
  • Latest reply from Fountainbridge

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  1. gembo
    Member

    According to sun

    Express coldest winter for fifty years

    BBC for 100 years (oh wait BBC saying it is all rubbish)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. jdanielp
    Member

    Snow joke.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. dougal
    Member

    Does that mean the sun is going away?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. paddyirish
    Member

    @jdaneilp

    Icy what you did there

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. steveo
    Member

    Oh dear, this thread is about to slide away.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Tabloid predicts big freeze. Hoar Sun?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. Min
    Member

    Eventually they are going to be correct about this. They just have to keep trying.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. wingpig
    Member

    Eventually correct if they keep predicting it to be six weeks away or there'll eventually be snow six weeks after late September?

    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.

    *In a wardrobe since about February 2015.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. From the Grauniad in 2015:

    "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.

    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.

    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.

    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”.

    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."

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. paddyirish
    Member

    @threefromleith - thanks for that- wonderful!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. Fountainbridge
    Member

    Daily Express were predicting the same last year and the year before. Also predicted 3 months of 30 degree plus heat this summer.

    And yes, one day they may be correct

    Posted 7 years ago #

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