Weather hysteria

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To not get the media’s obsession at the minute with the current cold spell 🤷‍♂️
I get the emphasis on the weather with the current energy situation, but we live in a country that experiences cold weather at this time of year regularly. The ‘Beast from the east’ didn’t get this much airtime so wtf?

I agree. I swear the media exaggerate more and more every day.

Sensationalism generates clicks I suppose.

It’s the Met office saying it’s very unusual. Towns in the south east haven’t gone above freezing for days. Schools and airports are closed. Children have doer from falling through ice. The snow here wasn’t forecast and there’s been no gritting. It’s having a big impact on a lot of people and things. And the British love talking about the weather, it’s not going to change.

Meh, media always love to hype stuff up. They are bored of terrifying everyone with strep A so onto the next thing. At least it keeps H&M off the top spot.

It is getting over hyped as it is affecting the South East. Whenever the media talks about good/bad/wet/cold weather it is always gets more hysteria when it affects the South East.

Yes, a few years ago, we didn't have weather bombs, rain bombs, or Beasts From the flippin' East. It's just clickbait.

YANBU.

Yes my in-laws who live in Europe just called because even their media is reporting that snow has stopped everything in the UK! I'm in the North and we've had no snow.

It's affecting London. So gets more coverage.

Agreed.

We had a dusting yesterday (costal Newcastle). There was a few cm inland, said a friend. It thawed a bit and froze to black ice. But plenty of people were going about their business, when I walked the dog and later, went to the shops.

Mind you, it was awful skiting around with the dog this morning.

I'm in the North and there's been no snow here.

Which region?

I'm so over it all. It was all OTT in the summer too. It must be hard for people to stay calm and think rationally when there is this level of hysteria. We just have to crack on while being careful.

It's always too hold or too cold, and someone will die etc. Same story every year, not only in the UK.

"..... and airports are closed."

That's kind of an example of the sensationalism - it's now Monday PM - which UK airports are closed ATM?

It's pretty unusual for UK temperatures to stay around zero for any length of time. You have a few days a year maybe. But this period looks like it is going on for a couple of weeks.

Not as brutal as December 2010 which was seriously cold. I remember getting out of my car at work and the thermometer was reading -13C at 10:00 am so god knows how cold it got during the night.

Fortunately the nation has the collective memory capability of a goldfish as far as weather is concerned so is largely spared remembering the horror of 2010 - to most people every summer feels like the hottest ever and every winter the coldest ever.

It is unusually cold here in Cambridge, particularly in December. We’ve had more snow today than in the last 7 years we’ve lived here and kids first snow day off school.

Actually the beast from the east got MASSIVE airtime! That's why it's still very much in peoples memory, and it was what? 4-5 years ago now?

It is colder than normal. I can't remember the last time we had days where it was negative temperatures during the day.

The weather’s been a right pain this year. We had 42 degrees in the summer and now the village is encrusted with 6” days of frozen solid snow. We’re not prepared (in terms of infrastructure in the midlands) for this sort of thing so it’s carnage.

It's the first time in my memory that London has seen snow before Christmas. It's always been February/March. So while not extreme it is very unusual.

I don't think it is a bias towards the south east but more the chaos that has arisen from it as it was not forecast. I live in Brighton and snow that settles and deep enough to use a sledge in happened about 5/6 years ago. Yesterday, it was pretty dangerous as it is a hilly area and cars heading back from places that they had visited snow free in the morning were sliding everywhere. Dumped at the side of roads. My DH had to help push a tiny car on a hill, and this was one of three on a residential road in same predicament. No gritting has taken place on side roads and that is tricky on hills. My daughter and many others fell on our road badly on her back. I stopped an older woman falling over.

No airports are closed and they closed mainly at night which they do anyway, not many flights take off past 10pm anyway. They reduced flights to deal with delays etc

I don't think it is hysteria.

We aren't set up for bad weather in the southern part of England. We don't get it enough to be cost effective to do much more than grit roads. So people don't have tyre chains, emergency packs, or even much experience in driving in poor conditions. Similarly we don't have the extra warm outdoor gear that everyone probably has in say Norway.

I remember a nightmare journey (in the 90s? r 00s?). I was coming back from work in Hamburg, Heathrow was closed we flew into London City (where is that? I had no idea), couldn't see anything on the motorway, ended up having to stop at a services hotel for the night.

Exactly..

I've been watching with interest...there may have been a brief closure at Gatwick last night for sweeping and yes, there were some delays cancellations into some airports this AM because of a forecast possibility of freezing fog but that was about the sum of it.

This certainly wasn't Planes Trains etc

I’m in a country with a lot of snow and it goes down to -30. Nothing is closed here. Watching the news about the weather in UK now. But, tbf, we have proper winter tyres (even on bikes) and our houses are made to cope with the cold etc.