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Norman Lynagh[_5_] · March 3rd 18, 09:21 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

wrote:

The northward moving occluded front is giving snow right across the
Midlads and East Anglia now (just arriving in your local
neighbourhood around Stoke about now I should think....). In
Hertfordshire there is yet another problem of a large number of
motorists stuck in snow -I think it was 100 cars between Luton and
Hitchin . Patchy snow has been expected in northern and central this
weekend for several days now. The warnings seem fully justified and
appropriate IMO.

I'm with Graham on this one, Julian. There was a warning of snow for
this area from 0005 till 2355 yesterday, We didn't get one flake of
snow during that period. We seem to get a lot of these 'cry wolf'
warnings. As a result, people tend to ignore all warnings and, of
course, occasionally get caught out. The fact that a Time of Issue is
no longer included in each warning further reduces their usefulness.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr