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Andy Monium
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The arrival of a swan from Russia has led weather watchers to fear that we are in for the winter from Hell.

A folklore superstition with a little science thrown in, when a swan from Siberia lands at Slimbridge Wetlands in Gloucestershire, that means winter is coming.

The swans are allegedly a good indicator of when things become too cold in the east. But no swan has arrived as early as this before. Is the Snowpocalypse coming?

"Apparently there's a Russian saying 'the swan brings snow on its bill', because they tend to move just ahead of the cold weather," said Julia Newth of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust





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Chuffing hell Andy, thats just down the road from me,

But you dont need a swan to know winters coming do ya, i mean look at the calendar Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar are really not very hot months are they.



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WorcesterMiller wrote:

Chuffing hell Andy, thats just down the road from me,


But you dont need a swan to know winters coming do ya, i mean look at the calendar Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar are really not very hot months are they.





It's the one and only Siberian Swan though, Worcester.

According to the anoraks that bird does not bring glad tidings of comfort and joy when it visits our shores in early October.

Will the UK be able to cope with the influx?


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Pft more migration issues.

Last we need is snow, although last 3yrs has been strangely calm. Was it 5yrs ago we had all that snow and it didn't go above zero for 3 months or more? Maybe we're due (hope not it destroys the youth football calendar)

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Hope we dont, 2010 holds bad memories for me.

When i lived in the sticks, had no power, no heating, the boiler broke because of the cold,
We had a temperature reading of -14 whilst we were sat on the drive ready to go to work, couldn't get up the major hill near us on several occasions to get back from Work.

Glad we moved into Worcester now, i can walk to work LOL.






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Yes, it was a wicked Winter back in 2010. I still think that boats filled with swans are still very worrying.

Which swan is steering? That's what I'd like to know.



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are those swans on the Lake

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Andy Monium wrote:

Yes, it was a wicked Winter back in 2010. I still think that boats filled with swans are still very worrying.


Which swan is steering? That's what I'd like to know.





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It's swan at the stern.

I'll get mi coat.

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Pity the frigging swan didn't come from China as then we could have sold our nuclear industry to it. 



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