If you are Ian Brown then kudos to you. Over 10 years ago you were talking about the new modern winter regime that lay ahead and you stuck to your guns despite some very hostile posting and ridiculing from members over on netweather and on here I would imagine as well.
The problem I had with what Ian said a decade or more ago on here is that for much of the time he was adamant that long-lasting spells of notable cold in this country such as those that we saw fairly commonly until the late 1980s simply could not happen again under any circumstances. That has not proved to be the case.
If one is being diplomatic about it, then for the most part he has been right. However, no-one can have forgotten that we had a month-long spell of severe cold in two successive winters a decade ago, some notable cold in early 2013 which culminated in an unusually cold March that year and then the Beast from the East at the end of Feb/start of March 2018, and other brief spells of cold earlier that winter (at least in my part of the world).
If one was to say that "modern era" factors have made the likelihood of cold weather happening somewhat less than in the past, then they would have a point. However, it is quite another for one to dismiss cold completely and try to say that it simply can't happen again in this country no matter what. The few aforementioned instances from the past decade most certainly prove that it can, even if it doesn't happen as often as it did a few decades back.
Apologies for being off-topic btw.
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Lenzie, Glasgow
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