Those who like cold winters may be able to take some heart from what
followed the mild winters of the 1730s. And there is at least a
slight hint in the data that the mildness of our winters may have
declined a little post 2000.

Looking at some of the recent photographs, i.e.: post-"1947 mk. II"
2002, from the EAST of England, that indeed seems to be indeed somewhat
true. This January alone, Brian Gaze has already reported 4 successive
days of snow down in his neck of the woods, which, he concedes, is
something that he has not in fact seen for a while now! (Is that right,
Brian?)

However, here, in the North-West of England, after the feets of snow
that fell in February 1994 and December 1995, plus the penetratingly
powerful early January 1997 easterly, and other "lesser" - but by no
means poor - snowfalls, such as November 1993 and February 2001,
October(!) 2000 being quite firmly somewhere between the two, if
slightly closer to the former, I have to say:-D, the situation, IF
ANYTHING, still REMAINS just slightly WORSE than the 1990s. Looking at
Hudds. today, it was like something from an Engels or a Dickens
piece!:-o

Perhaps Brian is right... maybe it well and truly *IS* the turn of the
South-East now, which largely missed out in the mid-1990s solar minimum
fun and games, at the expense of the general North and West of the
country now.:-(

EVEN THE SOUTH-WEST IS GETTING MORE SNOW NOWADAYS FOR HEAVEN'S
SAKES!!!:-(

D.