When I was a child there was one bit of weather lore which everybody knew – sometimes it’s too cold to snow.
But when we asked our A level meteorology teacher about it he said he had never heard of it & could not think of any reason why that should be.
I thought about it again this morning.
Although it has been bitterly cold we have not had any of the snow – save for a light dusting – which has been blanketing the north east of England, Wales & some of the West Country. Not much was forecast either.
Last night I was pleasantly surprised that it was not so cold as it had been.
To wake up to a nasty surprise – local radio full of lists of closed schools & roads.
No high road was passable this morning & the village is under several inches.
It is not at all the same snow as we had last year; this is the deep damp powdery stuff which gets treacherously slippery when compacted – another reason for hating people who park up on pavements. Doesn’t have the roughed up surface of the deep frozen stuff to give your feet something to grip.
