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-=> Quoting Paul Hayton to Nancy Backus on 27-Mar-2015 14:51 <=-

 NB>> It's the odd ones that can cause the most grief... unless one is
 NB>> merely brushed by it...  We don't normally get much hurricane or
 NB>> tornado activity here, but once in a while we get brushed by the
 NB>> edge of the former, or a small tornado might form... nothing
 NB>> particularly bad, generally...

 PH> Yes same here. It's unusual for my country to be in the firing line of
 PH> many of these kinds of weather events. That said, 'unusual' seems to be
 PH> happeing more and more and the phrase 'once in a 100 year event' being
 PH> trotted out more often. Do you notice that also where you live?

Some of that seems to be more in the hyperbole of the 'casters... ;) 
Whether in their minds or mouths or both... ;)  Most of what I see here
is cyclical patterns, and short memories of earlier times...  :)  That
said, though, this February did break the record for the coldest since
1871... probably mostly because, for a change, we never got a thaw
somewhere in the middle of the month, it just stayed very cold steadily.
It was also the first February in a long time that had so much snow...
but I remember, in the decade or so after we moved here, that that had
been normal snowfall... sledding/snow parties had been regular February
events, but over the years, the snow didn't cooperate for a while...

ttyl       neb

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