Coldest December Ever in Britain -- Not a Bakken Story

I was going to link this story at an earlier post -- piggy back it in, as it were, but this is too good a story to hide.

Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned -- grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill.

And tonight the nation was braced for another ten (10) inches of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures -- with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned.

The Arctic conditions are set to last through the Christmas and New Year bank holidays and beyond (at least until January 14, 2011) and as temperatures plummeted to 14 degrees F the Met Office said this December was 'almost certain' to become the coldest since records began in 1910.

No comment. Except: time for Brits to vacation in Cancun, Mexico. Oh, I forgot: unexpectedly cold weather there also closed beaches earlier this "winter."