Paul: go on don't keep him waiting give him a biscuit.

Snow looks pretty just so long as it's 10,000 miles away I don't mind it a bit.

Seriously I take it that it's unusual to have snow at this time of year.

Paul,

Also have a look at ICECAP and

http://north.bensaunders.com/

In Scandinavia it's perfectly natural to have spring snow and a " spring backlash". Farmers call spring snow as the world's best fertilizer.

In our part of the world there are also lullabies stating things like this about nature in springtime " try to sleep little trees, still it's winter"....

1981 was the last time I remember significant April snow, which was followed by one of the hardest winters in living memory, when we saw two weeks of temperatures below -20C.

Newport in Shropshire, a neighbouring county to Staffordshire, where we live, recorded the lowest ever instrumental UK temperature of -26.1C on 10th January 1982.

Ann - this is your weather - from the Arctic to the UK!

Hi Paul,
Nice dog! I have one problem with my dog with snow, he's a handsome Irishman ( Irish setter) with too long hair between the claws so there will be much snow attached to the paws.

Hi Ann - eating the snow was the first thing my dog did this morning!

Timo - Funny! Believe the Arctic hype and suffer the consequences!

Thanks for the picture of your dog - wet nose and all!
And his name is?

Lucky!

I notice that only one of the five horses in the top photo is facing left whereas the other four are facing right. I wonder how their climate politics compare?

You must have good eye sight, unless you've enlarged the photo!

The horses shouldn't be there at all - it's a flood plane that floods regularly - the river can just be seen where the bank is green.

Paul. I posted on another thread above, (off topic).. But did you see the pic of our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and wife attending church in Kent yesterday.... In heavy snow...After attending a conference of leaders of "Progressive Governments" on....You guessed it; "global warming"! Ha ha.

Re the cold winter of 1982; the UK apparently had a very severe winter in 1948. I believe I may have posted about this some time ago, after reading an account of it in Punch a couple of years ago. Quite graphic, some quotes from it.. "Skaters waltzed on the Trent, the Tyne and the Thames, where above the latter, Big Ben had not struck the hour for many days, with the hammer ice glued to the bell!"

Indeed - the post war 1947/48 winter was severe from the point of view of its duration.

You know the old joke about this Russian, he was arguing with his wife about the weather, she said it would snow and he couldnt agree saying "rudolph the red nose rain dear"