Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

[rangerrebew]

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

By Charles Onians

Monday, 20 March 2000
 

Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091230061832/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html

[rangerrebew]

I wish the same could be said about imbecile reporters who masquerade as intelligent.  

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

I'll keep that in mind in a couple of months when I'm trying to clear 10" of freshly-fallen "non-snow" from the driveway.

[andy58-in-nh]

Lest we forget, these people have been predicting catastrophe for decades. This article, written 21 years ago, was was wrong then as it is today.

[Kamaji]

Lest we forget, these people have been predicting catastrophe for decades. This article, written 21 years ago, was was wrong then as it is today.

Yup

[mountaineer]

Lest we forget, these people have been predicting catastrophe for decades. This article, written 21 years ago, was was wrong then as it is today.

21 years ago was roughly when we had a big 20" snowstorm on Presidents' Day. 

[Fishrrman]

Pay attention to the date of the source article above...

[LMAO]

Lest we forget, these people have been predicting catastrophe for decades. This article, written 21 years ago, was was wrong then as it is today.

Back in the 1970's, we were warned about the coming Ice Age.

I'm not saying these groups are lying. The data in the 1970's probably suggested a coming ice age. But using any current data to predict the future is, as we see, folly. Things change and something like the climate is very dynamic