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I'm outside the UK (Score:1)
I am in the USA. What is this "meter" business. :-P /duck
More seriously didn't you mean to tell people to convert "couple inches" into "several centimeters"? Because, unless we Americans have really mangled English units, an inch is nowhere near a meter.
Re:I'm outside the UK (Score:2)
No, I was very precise. I wrote correct unit conversion for snow , to reflect on how the UK (fails to) cope with even the slightest amount of snow.
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The inability of the UK to cope with snow is directly connected to the overall climate and is hardly unique.
I guarantee that large parts of the USA (eg the Pacific Northwest and Virginia) are similarly incapable of handling even small amounts of snow. By contrast there is only one place in Canada which is unable to handle snow. (That would be Victoria, BC. It has a combination of rare snow due to warm, wet climate, with a tendency towards wet snow combined with steep geography with many residents who mov