Whither The Weather?

The strangest thing about the British obsession with the weather has always been that we have had so little of it. 

If we are now acquiring normal seasons, proper summers and proper winters, then that is not "extreme" or any kind of emergency. 

Except that we have never been able to cope even with the summers and, especially, the winters that we did have.

Do Canada, Scandinavia, the northern United States, and the lands around the Baltic shut down for between one quarter and one third of every year? They do not.

And nor should we.