What has been most dissapointing about this winter so far has been the absolute media frenzy during the current cold snap which is about to come crashing to an end. Banging on about freezing Britain and the endless news bulletins about disruption!!
Get over yourselves you feckin' idiots!! Most of Europe has had much snowier and colder weather and yet coped with it much better than we ever do! Why can't we cope with snowy weather? Why is it such a news story?
Let's face it folks, it hasn't been that bad, certainly not cold. There has been a distinct lack of cold and frosty days and far too much mild weather (around Xmas for example). This recent cold snap has been marginal in so many areas and down here in the south east the roads have not been badly affected at all.
We had about 7 inches of snow in Longfield from the two combined snow events last Friday and then Sunday and a lot of it is still lying on the ground, but it is not that impressive I'm afraid, afterall it snowed for 14 hours on Sunday and gained about 5 inches.
The breakdown of this cold snap is going to be wet and messy with many areas facing flooding from snowmelt and then heavy rain. Just what we don't need!!
In the history of great British winters of the last say 200 years, based on what we have had so far, I don't think this one would even make the top 50!!
So for me AVERAGE!