I reported a few months ago that certain “experts” were predicting the “worst winter on record” this year. Some people were even organising their lives around it.
Well, the media is doing its best to talk things up during this chilly few days (in spite of the Met Office saying it’s just a brief cold snap and it will get warmer next week).
I just saw BBC News adding fuel to the fires. They had a reporter standing in snow, wringing her hands and saying “it’s well below freezing already”. Well, yeah, it would be – standing up in the Brecon Beacons in the dark, less than a week away from midwinter!
So far, we’ve had unseasonal mild weather, and now we’ve got a bit of typical British winter weather – snow on the hills, wet or sleety everywhere else, frost at night, and bitterly cold if it’s windy and the temperature is below about 6°C.
But stand outside in the dark in the Welsh mountains anywhere close to the Winter Solstice and yes, it will be bloody cold.