I found two remarkable maps on a French weather site today. One was of the current cold blob over Scandinavia - it coincides almost exactly with the national borders of Sweden. The other is of the British Isles - there is a wedge of air around freezing point stretching from Northern Ireland and Argyll across to the Firth of Forth, with ALL the rest of Britain at least 5 deg C colder. It isn't often we get to snigger at so many people in the UK.