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David WE Roberts wrote:

"K" wrote in message
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.. so - is it that this winter is a good deal colder than normal down
south, and therefore things have been hit quite badly? Whereas up here,
it's only marginally colder than normal, and we already plant for this
sort of weather, so we haven't been hit quite so badly?

So far (since the middle of December) the winter has been far harder here
than usual.
Most years we don't see any snow, at least any settled snow.
Hard frosts are unusual as well.

Not really. That's true only on a 10-15 year timescale. Even the
hardest winters of the past 10 years have been milder than average
for many of the decades before.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.