[jambutty]

I wouldn’t rejoice too soon about mild winters because it was only the other day that a news report stated that a county sized chunk of the north pole became detached and was floating southwards. Apart from the danger to shipping there is the small point of all that mainly fresh water ice and snow melting into the North Atlantic and pushing the Gulf Stream into the depths long before it does so now.

A few more of those and the Gulf Stream, the one that keeps these islands ten degrees warmer than the latitude indicates, will also get pushed south, leaving us at the mercy of our true latitude. Winters will come with a vengeance to the UK apart from the far South West.