Climate change means many kids in Lancashire no longer have sledges in the shed
Anyone still in doubt about the impact of climate change should think back to the winters of the 90s when sledges were found in the sheds of most Lancashire families.
Rising temperatures due to climate change has led to milder winters and fewer occasions when schools are closed, youngsters can go sledging and cars had to be dug out of the drifts.
Lancs warned to brace for snow this week as weather chart predicts freeze
People in Lancs are being warned to prepare for snow as new weather maps predict 50 UK counties will be blanketed when temperatures plummet this week.
The warning arrives as the Met Office expects the freezing blast to bring temperatures as cold as -7C to multiple regions as Arctic air arrives from the north.
People in Lancs are being warned to prepare for snow as new weather maps predict 50 UK counties will be blanketed when temperatures plummet this week.
The warning arrives as the Met Office expects the freezing blast to bring temperatures as cold as -7C to multiple regions as Arctic air arrives from the north.
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But is a proposed warming a sign of catastrophe or a return to 'normal' from a previous period of cold?
Are we being conned by an Association of Sledge Makers?
DJ - yes it could be that we are being conned by an Association of Sledge Makers, although if we do get snow I bet those plastic sledges suddenly appear in large numbers.
I remember sledging as a kid in the 80's. I don't remember how often it snowed though. Assuming it was a lot more then than it is now, that would tell me the climate is changing. I wouldn't tell me that humans are causing it and we need to abandon our way of life
I also remember a time when newspapers didn't constantly print 'articles' that tell us the exact date when we're going to be roasted alive by the sun or buried under a snow bomb, only for it not tohappen
Bucko - I remember more snow in the past too, although winters were still quite variable. As I remember it, you needed a good, long snowy slope for the best sledging and that wasn't easy to find where we lived.
"wasn't easy to find where we lived"
There were a couple of killer hills where we lived. Much worse than the tiny slopes those pussy ski jumpers use
We once had an eight month winter. Our last snow of the Spring of 1979 was in May, on our train going over Shap. Our first snow of the autumn of 1979 was in September when we were hill-walking in the Highlands.
There you are: it must be like living in Derbyshire.
Bucko - we had nothing like that apart from a long steep road which as I remember it was okay for sledging, perhaps because cars of those days couldn't get up it in snow.
dearieme - I don't remember much about the weather in 1979, but maybe it wasn't particularly unusual in Derbyshire. I remember our Ford Escort struggling in snow on the way to work though, that would be round about that time.
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