Stephen Davenport, senior meteorologist at MeteoGroup, said: “This is stretching the limits of short to medium term forecasting but so entrenched is this cold-weather pattern that it seems only a major upheaval in the atmosphere will bring a return to something milder.
“Should conditions continue in a similar vein then by March we might just be looking back at one of the coldest winters of the last 100 years.”
Did you see the post (on the front page of FR), re: cattle in Scotland?
Yikes.
Five dollars for the head of Gore.
And that’s not all:
Northern Ireland hospitals and gritters stretched to capacity,
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
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An unprecedented number of patients requiring surgery after falling on ice has led to one health trust having to cancel several planned operations.
Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry has treated 102 people who required surgery after slipping on ice in the past fortnight.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust has postponed 26 planned operations as a result.
Staff at accident and emergency departments in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital and at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald are also experiencing an increase in patient numbers.