Big freeze on its way but more snow unlikely

3:34pm Monday 14th January 2013 in Countywide Photograph of the Author By Emma Harrison, Reporter covering Rose Hill, Littlemore and Iffley. Contact me on 01865 425430

TEMPERATURES are set to plummet to -6C this week but Oxfordshire may be spared more snow, forecasters have warned this afternoon.

Charles Powell, Met Office forecaster, said this morning’s snow should be the last flurry Oxfordshire sees this week.

Earlier forecasters said Oxfordshire could be in for three more days of snow.

Daily temperatures this week are expected to reach no more than 4C in the county.

Oxfordshire County Council spokesman Owen Morton said gritters will continue to be out and about as the cold snap continues.

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Grunden Skip says...
4:01pm Mon 14 Jan 13

NO, NO, NO, it can't be right, only two stories down you are telling us that we will be blanketed with snow for the next three days. What next, a new story in 30 minutes telling us to expect a heatwave?

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PK Nuts says...
4:24pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Perhaps if we get floods again the OM will trigger a tsunami warning for Oxford.

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Grunden Skip says...
4:37pm Mon 14 Jan 13

PK Nuts wrote:
Perhaps if we get floods again the OM will trigger a tsunami warning for Oxford.
No Chance, we won't be playing Newcastle Utd for years!!

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EMBOX2 says...
5:11pm Mon 14 Jan 13

More quality local journalism! Do the people who write these stories actually read their own newspaper/website!?

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PaulSte says...
5:54pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Given that the Met Office and BBC weather have been reporting all day that there would be no more snow in the next three days for Oxfordshire, could someone from the Oxford Mail please say which forecasters DID predict snow as per the previous Mail piece on the weather?

The Mail seems happy to name Charles Powell. Be good to know who said we'd have blanket snow for three days.

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PK Nuts says...
6:13pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Dear OM
This link may help.
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/weather/2640729
If not, can we have a button to "report this post" for your articles that are misleading or incorrect like we have for our comments?
Regards PKNuts
PS - I wonder if they read this and dare to comment!!

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Grunden Skip says...
7:15pm Mon 14 Jan 13

PK Nuts wrote:
Dear OM
This link may help.
http://www.bbc.co.uk

/weather/2640729
If not, can we have a button to "report this post" for your articles that are misleading or incorrect like we have for our comments?
Regards PKNuts
PS - I wonder if they read this and dare to comment!!
Jason collie does read this and only deletes our accounts, not any of his reporters.

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Phian says...
7:24pm Mon 14 Jan 13

Right now there are great big snowflakes falling, who can we believe ?

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Myron Blatz says...
10:08pm Mon 14 Jan 13

It's all rather farsical - instead of news, regional newspapers are trying to peddle sensationalism - 'Cold Snow' in Winter, and either 'droughts and too hot' or 'floods and too wet' in Summer! We have become addicted to 24hr tv news coverage around the globe, when we no longer have a world-dominating Empire, and when we do actually get a 'proper Winter' the buses, trains and planes can no longer cope with such intrusion of our controlled society - though in may parts oc Oxford, some bus operators can't even cope when it's dry, let alone flooded or snowbound! Fact is that because of the UK's geographical location, our weather systems are always changing faster than weather gurus can predict, and which at least enables most Brits to do what we like best - complain and moan about the weather, and then holiday in Spain, Greece or Florida for lots of hot sunshine and guaranteed suntan for our wrinkly-baked bodies!

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