Not to make light of this, but 'meanwhile in Canada...'.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
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To be fair, when it comes to snow the majority of us Brits are pretty embarrassingly crap in dealing with it.
Because it's not a common occurance
Also we tend to hover around the freezing point, where snow melts and then freezes to ice. It's often easier to deal with proper sub-zero temperatures.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yellow warnings for snow and ice are in force for much of Scotland through Friday and Saturday, with a chance of power cuts and travel disruption.
It comes after a cold blast sent temperatures well below freezing in parts of the country and brought dozens of schools closures to northern areas of England and Wales on Thursday.
In central and northern areas, there is a further chance of travels delays, as well as disruption to power supply and other services like mobile phone coverage, it said.
The flood warnings in England - issued by the Environment Agency - are concentrated around Birmingham, Derby, Milton Keynes, and east Yorkshire.
The UK's cold weather comes as the EU's climate service says global warming has for the first time hexceeded the 1.5C warning limit across an entire year.
World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, a target seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.
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