Many areas in England were affected by Storm Goretti yesterday and today. It was much hyped in the news with predictions of high winds and snow. There were indeed high winds with lots of trees blown over in the south west, and very sadly one person in Cornwall was killed by a falling tree. However I was rather taken aback this morning when I saw, on the news, the photos of the snow deposited by Storm Goretti in the Midlands. There seems to have been only a thin layer of snow, maybe about 4 to 6 cm at most, and it is clearly melting quickly because you could see that the roads were already fairly clear. Despite this underwhelming amount of snow, buses and trains in England have been cancelled and road traffic has been hugely disrupted. There has however been little coverage of the significant amounts of snow that we have had in the north of Scotland over the past week, where there has been no fuss at all about the genuinely difficult driving conditions.
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