A snowstorm in a teacup

I rather like the Economist's Bagehot's comments on the coup that wasn't

There is a French school of historians who see climate as one of the underlying drivers of human history. The typical application of this view to Britain is that, being a grey, damp nation, we have quiet, uneventful politics. Yesterday we had the snowstorm: I wonder what difference that made. Among other things, it meat that the BBC didn’t even lead with the plot on the Six O’clock news, going with the snow instead. It meant that some MPs went home early. If it had been an uneventful, sunny day, would it have made any difference? Maybe not.