Posted by Robert Hill on March 11, 2006 at 22:05:48 from 195.92.168.163 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Why not? (was Will Coniston/Windemere freeze?) posted by Lyn on March 11, 2006 at 20:42:57:
It takes a relatively long, continuous spell of cold weather to freeze a large lake. In the last century the larger lakes of the Lake District have frozen only about four times. Presumably the person who said they won't freeze again meant that global warming is making it more unlikely that those conditions will happen again in the next few centuries.
Though, as someone pointed out, if the 'switch' that appears to control the Atlantic currents is flipped, Britain is in for a spell of seriously cold weather. If that happens we'll be lucky to see an unfrozen lake.