Snow report

You'd think that with four UK winters under my belt I'd know better. No sooner do I announce the return of normal weather and the Met Office promptly forecasts more bitter cold accompanied by several days of snow. We're being told this evening that snow will begin falling on Sunday, with heavier falls on Monday and Tuesday. Worse still, the afternoon temperature on Monday will peak at a frigid 1°C, rising to 2°C the following day.

Met Office says this new cold spell could last a month or more. Apparently, the 'warm' Atlantic airstream we've been experiencing for the last two weeks is being pushed aside by a stable high pressure mass centred over the snow-bound Nordics. We're being promised a ferociously bitter windchill factor. With this winter now the coldest in 13 years, the media is promoting the specter of harsh winters from 1947 and 1963.