Although we've had no snow here, I can't say it's been a bad winter or that it's reached a tipping point. It's easy for me to say that as we haven't had flooding and I know the met office say it's been the wettest on record, but it hasn't been the wettest here. For some people it has been the worst as they've had flooding, but other parts of the country have had flooding in previous years, as did we a few years ago, but not this year.
We all like to sensationalise about the weather to some degree and some people have short memories as it's not so long ago that we were getting excited about the worst drought conditions and hosepipe bans, so it was almost inevitable we'd get a period of floods. We've had record low temperatures, record snowfall, record high temps, ong periods of grey summer days, etc...
We've only been making accurate recordings of weather stats for a very short time in the grand scheme of things, so we may be breaking recorded stats, but we have very little to go on with regard to weather extremes further back in history.
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