Christmas

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

If it snows here the rest of the country is in real trouble.

Absolutely! It's all to do with the micro-climate caused by the bad weather hitting the south coast of the Isle of Wight, plus the location of the hills above Winchester, etc.....something to do with off-shore breezes? When we get snow down here in Southampton the whole world stops.

Well, it DID snow everywhere else except for Romsey
http://uk.weather.yahoo.com/UKXX/UKXX1774/index_c.html

and Shirrell Heath
http://uk.weather.yahoo.com/UKXX/UKXX1630/index_c.html