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Weather bomb'? what is one of those?
Could this be the article that the original poster refers to?
Christmas weather prediction 2016: Snowbomb to smash UK on Christmas | Daily Star
If airline pilots were as bad as flying aircraft as the Daily Star are at reporting the truth we would probably all be in prison. I was going to suggest that we would all be at the bottom of a deep smoking hole in the ground but to be as incompetent as a Daily Star journalist, well you would have done something really stupid before managing to find your way to a runway.
"Temperatures are set to plummet to a bone chilling 20 Celsius". I hope so, it would remind me of my childhood in South Africa when of course Christmas's occurs in mid summer.
"Blistering 70mph gales from the Atlantic will bring several feet of snow"? Perhaps might get the odd flake on the top of the Cairngorms but I suspect it will be to mild at low levels with such a pronounced South Westerly air flow.
UK Met Office Fax Charts - UKMOMSLP Analysis and Prognosis - org
Might be a bit breezy in Stornoway on Saturday, but they are use to it.
"The Scottish cities of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and parts of northern England are most likely to see winter flurries of snow."
The last paragraph of that article perhaps paints the more realistic picture.