Sir, – Much space was devoted to the recent "historic" New York blizzard, which never happened. What a pity our American cousins in the media did not repay us in kind. CBS, NBC and ABC websites ignored the amber gale warning for Mayo and the snow in Castleblaney. Minor roads closed in Cavan were nowhere on Fox News or CNN. Strangest of all, America's newspaper of record, the New York Times, entirely missed reports of a fallen tree near Termonfeckin.
Perhaps we should treat wild predictions of apocalyptic US weather with the dose of salt that melodrama deserves. At least our own storms, while not historic, happened as predicted by Met Éireann.– Yours, etc,
MICHAEL SHERIDAN,
Bray,
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Co Wicklow.