I may strongly deviate from the more common viewpoint, but I am like a giddy schoolgirl right now. Situated in Dublin at the moment, and far as I can imagine, we're supposed to have milder winters compared with you brits. :) It's everything to do with the rain shadow of the mountain ranges to our west, which helps block the rain that gets carried over to the British isles by the dominating cold fronts of the Atlantic, the cool temperate oceanic climate zone, the common altitudes, icecream, stuff like that. We've been having quite a bit of snow lately, with snowfall throughout most nights and what seems to be a dying out winter anticyclone, so stuff's nice and chilly so far. Love it. Frankly, I wanna have more of it, gives me some cheap yuks. The state of even moderately used roads isn't any worse than that after a mild downpour in the heat of the summer, the roads are as wet as they always are here, only difference is that there's snow by the side of them. The locals up here can't really take any frost round here, nor a few hotter days where the temperature is anywhere above 22 Celcius. It can be mildly entertaining to observe this round here. :lol: :lol: