“Britain is facing one of the coldest winters on record,”
shouts the Express.
I’ve heard from many readers that you should always take article from the Express with a huge grain of salt.
Keeping the above caveat in mind, the Express warns that “A FREAK series of rare atmospheric events is set to plunge Britain into the worst winter of modern times with heavy snow paralysing the entire country within WEEKS.”
(Yes, all of the capitalized words are theirs.)
They call for “a CATASTROPHIC big freeze in late 2014 with THREE MONTHS of blizzards and Arctic gales.”
They fear “a lethal and unprecedented combination of low pressure, above-average rainfall and a freak Polar vortex will come together in a perfect storm of misery for Winter 2014.
“Moist air from the Atlantic currently causing the mild, wet and windy weather threatens to collide with bitter Arctic winds.
Torrential rain will turn to “blizzards capable of smothering the ENTIRE COUNTRY in feet-deep snowdrifts.”
“….it threatens to rival the historic winter of 1947 which saw snow fall EVERY SINGLE DAY between January and March (when) crippling snow drifts of up to FIVE METRES ground swathes of the country to a standstill…”
Thanks to H.B. Schmidt for this link