David Phillips
David Phillips
below higher less normal
It could be (you have) below normal precipitation but your snowfall is higher because you have less rainfall.
hard spin
It hard to spin this as a success.
dress glimpse preview winter wondering
I think (this winter) will be a dress rehearsal. It may very well be a glimpse or preview of what winter will be like in the future, where we will be wondering where winter is.
conditions great ice land last rather reputation risk seen weather white year
Our reputation as the great white north, the land of ice and snow, may be at risk here because what we have seen is rather anomalous weather conditions for the last year particularly.
cent people per saved
People have probably saved at least 10 to 15 per cent on their heating bill.
results sure surprise
Some of the results will be sure to surprise you.
among causing clearly deadline division iraqis issues meet pressure putting timetable
Clearly the deadline is not working as there are still such big issues outstanding and putting pressure on them to meet the timetable is probably causing more division among the Iraqis than consensus.
cancelled certainly gone year
I don't know if we feel guilty, but we certainly feel as if it's the first year we've cancelled winter. We've gone years without summer, but never winter.
arrived lost norway
He arrived in Norway having not lost a pound,
absolutely generally less seen snow warmer
Grandparents will tell you that winters aren't what they used to be and they're absolutely right about that. Winters have been generally getting warmer and warmer and with generally less snow than what we have seen in the past.
lose storm
I don't want to go through that again. If another big storm comes, I am going to lose everything again.
agreements competing parties past stand
If you stand back and look at the past 50 years, all these parties have been competing with each other for resources. There have been some agreements but essentially they've been competing in a zero-sum game.
air answer arctic cold easy eurasia fact north pacific source winter
The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.
bit dramatic point weather
All of this is a bit of a yawner from a weather point of view. It's dramatic because it's so sudden.