So Cold...

[poliphilo]

Odi turned up on the doorstep yesterday afternoon with bags full of potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, melons, aubergines and plums. She'd been to an outdoor market where they were selling off frozen and frost damaged produce for silly money. 

My afternoon appointment with the practise nurse has been cancelled. They didn't tell me why she wasn't coming in, but she's probably snowbound.

George Monbiot says these vicious winters we're having are actually a sign of global warming.

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

It got down to -12°C, one morning last week, with gusting winds, then warmed up just enough to dump a half-foot of snow on Thursday. I love a white Christmas, but I have already had my fill of this winter.

The weather has changed radically, since I was a child. Significant snow falls this early in the season were practically unheard of. Our winters are warmer and, paradoxically, much more vicious than they used to be. We used to have nights colder than -18°C, sometimes several in a row, whereas these days we have not seen temperatures that cold in more than a decade.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

White Christmases were a rarity for most of my life. Heavy snow in November was even rarer.

Britain has very largely stopped functioning- which shows just how little we expected any of this.