crownweather

Yep. For sure. Granted the records are from Worcester but the 1940s were definitely a mixed bag of winters - some really horrible like 1941-42, 1943-44 & 1946-47, but others did really well (looking at you 1947-48).

I wish I could thank this post many times over. What a great post and it's all true!! Sadly, weather posts on Twitter and Facebook are such that, as you said, there's only a model map with no context. That gets shared a shit ton of times and thus it becomes a "forecast" that in all likelihood never verifies. What happens in the end is that the "public" ends up coming away thinking that it's another bust of a forecast and the meteorologist is wrong again - even though you and I and many others NEVER forecasted that to happen. Sometimes, I feel like the grumpy old man when I say to myself, It was better when all we had were difax printouts once or twice a day. You actually had to forecast the weather and not just regurgitate a really pretty model map. Again, great post!!

15/8/3

I'm sitting in the screw zone right along with you.