Yup, the first snowfall of the winter arrived in the early hours of this morning and is just tapering off now - there's a few inches or so accumulated, and apparently we're in for a bunch more on Monday night and into Tuesday. This is pretty early for snow to this extent - usually if we even get snow in early December, it's only a light dusting that melts off within hours, but not this time it seems. The weather forecast predicts low temperatures (near zero celcius or below) right through into next weekend, so the snow may be with us for a while. That just reminded me of an article I read last week on the BBC website about global warming causing changes in ocean currents (the gulf stream) which will actually lead to cooling rather than warming in Europe and I guess the northern hemisphere - I'll post about it during the coming week if I have time.