Winter!

I awoke this morning to find that a cruel northeast wind from Russia had delivered six inches of snow to central London. And it's still snowing. Yikes!

This is by far the most snow I have seen in my eight winters here, and the city does not cope so well. Railways and buses have stopped running, airports have closed and the tube service has been severely curtailed.

In the American mid-west, where I grew up, we'd shrug off a six-inch snowfall as a non-event - a blanket of snow usually covers the ground from December through February. When it happens only once every ten years, however, I can see how it causes such disruption.

Pictures Via Sky News

One thing for sure, I'm liking it less and less.