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Five days of constant snow / sleet expected in Newport.

Goody.

The BBC seems to think it can snow when the temperature is above freezing. They forecast heavy snow with a big white blob covering my area last night, but there was also a weather symbol that said 2°c. Of course snowfall isn't possible at that temperature so it didn't come. It rained instead.

Chie wrote:A load of rubbish

http://nsidc.org/snow/faq.html

Andrew Wood wrote:

Chie wrote:A load of rubbish

http://nsidc.org/snow/faq.html

Thank you for saving me a longer rant, Andrew.

As I read Chie's post, I was thinking "what an anagram of carp pours from the lips of idiots".

TSK. I've been gazumped to a science smackdown!

Well ok, but it did rain and it's still raining now, so the BBC Weather was wrong.

I think we can forgive them a minor error in prediction.

But don't let let that sidetrack you from trying to use it to gloss over your major mis-statement of fact in the original.

Oh no, sorry, but that's what you always do, isn't it?

Are you sure you're not an (unemployed) journalist? You know, never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

If I'd had a QI type klaxon to show "commonly misunderstood 'facts' by those too lazy to check" then I would have, erm, klaxoned it.

I feel cheated. The snow the SE had before christmas didn't really amount to much in Dover and Folkestone. I took the day off as the traffic was gridlocked into Dover thanks to Eurostar, the docks and a bus driving into the back of a lorry, not to mention a 4 hr powercut to add to the traffic misery. I would have thouroughly enjoyed the day off but there wasn't enough snow to play.
Looks like we're not going to get snow over the new year either. It's so unfair. I might buy a holiday home in Scotland for the winter.

Gavin Scott wrote:If I'd had a QI type klaxon to show "commonly misunderstood 'facts' by those too lazy to check" then I would have, erm, klaxoned it.

Hey, that post's a hoot!

(Sorry, I'm in one of those moods!)