After all, it was nearly 25 years ago (20 March 2000) that Dr David Viner, the senior scientist at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, prophesied that within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event" and that "children just aren't going to know what snow is."
The Independent has removed the original article since it went viral as one of the great lies of Climate Change, but fortunately the Internet never forgets:
Once in a Blue moon we used to get snow in Chester, too warm due to the Dee and the Mersey, now we are almost 1000 ASL on Welsh turf snow is guaranteed.
First job I did moving here was put knobblies on the Jimny.
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