{"id":20875,"date":"2017-02-08T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20875"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:39:25","slug":"ice-age-xxvi-this-time-im-in-on-the-ground-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20875","title":{"rendered":"Ice Age XXVI &#8211; This Time I&#8217;m In On The Ground Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Glacier - an ice age cometh\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Glacier - an ice age cometh\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glacier.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"296\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">The Sun is at it again. I saw a small item in today\u2019s paper copy <a title=\"THE BIG FREEZE Britain set to be colder than the Arctic as &lsquo;Scandinavian shiver&rsquo; will see temperature fall to -15C\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2811633\/uk-weather-temperatures-colder-than-arctic-scandinavian-shiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting that it will be -15\u00b0C by the end of the week<\/a>, and that it will stay like this until the end of March. Oddly, the front page of the online version\u2019s UK news has a story about how <a title=\"BLOOMIN' LOVELY Beautiful blooms pop up across Britain a MONTH early paving the way for a colourful spring\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2815058\/flowers-bloom-britain-early-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plants are blooming a month early, since spring is on the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure quite what it is they\u2019re trying to get at, since this winter has not been uncharacteristically cold, mild, wet, or dry. It\u2019s been a bit of all those things, just like British winters tend to be.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that the <a title=\"Met Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/public\/weather\/forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Met Office<\/a> isn\u2019t forecasting anything like what The Sun is. Neither is <a title=\"Netweather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.netweather.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netweather<\/a>. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And this is why I wanted in on the ground floor! All The Sun\u2019s blather about snow over the last fortnight came to nothing. Even places which had any barely saw more than a centimetre (for Brexiters, that\u2019s about three eighths of an inch). And as for it being colder than on the dark side of the moon until the end of March, today the temperature ranged from lows of around 7\u00b0C to highs of 10\u00b0C, and the forecast \u2013 the proper forecast from the Met Office and not some two-bit amateur outfit using seaweed and pine cones \u2013 is for temperatures as high as 12\u00b0C into the middle of next week.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough, we have had quite a bit of rain today which, after all, is only unfrozen snow, but still not quite the new Ice Age that The Sun was assuring us was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun is at it again. I saw a small item in today\u2019s paper copy reporting that it will be -15\u00b0C by the end of the week, and that it will stay like this until the end of March. Oddly, the front page of the online version\u2019s UK news has a story about how plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,95],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-weather","tag-glacier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}