Which makes me ponder if this weather (cold winters with snow) continues, how long the UK will take to adjust and take it in stride.
...which is an entirely possible side-effect of climate change; if the North Atlantic Conveyer switches off, we can look forward to winters appropriate to our latitude. Helloo New England...
(Though, of course, one bad winter doesn't indicate anything, as it's a single data point.)
Might be interesting to see a Frost Fair again, though.
I expect that we will suddenly start taking a lot more notice of the Scandinavian systems of dealing with winter.
My dad's got it tough - he lives on the west coast of Ireland in Connemara, where they're having the worst winter for decades; the pipes have all frozen solid and burst, they have no running water and are currently collecting meltwater for use for day-to-day needs.
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...which is an entirely possible side-effect of climate change; if the North Atlantic Conveyer switches off, we can look forward to winters appropriate to our latitude. Helloo New England...
(Though, of course, one bad winter doesn't indicate anything, as it's a single data point.)
Might be interesting to see a Frost Fair again, though.
I expect that we will suddenly start taking a lot more notice of the Scandinavian systems of dealing with winter.
My dad's got it tough - he lives on the west coast of Ireland in Connemara, where they're having the worst winter for decades; the pipes have all frozen solid and burst, they have no running water and are currently collecting meltwater for use for day-to-day needs.