Hotdoggin?

It seems doubtful that we're going to see any snow this year. At least, not in the winter. Maybe April or May will see a significant snowafall, just in time for the cricket season to start.

At the moment we seem to be having an extended autumn - the leaves didn't drop from the trees until December, when they were blown off by a storm that seems to have been blowing since Christmas. Swathes of the country are underwater, a series of landslips have cut off Hastings from London by rail, and the sodden ground, constant wind and massive waves have caused the following to happen...

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/story/2014-02-01/rock-fall-traps-man-in-hastings-shop/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25594640

http://combehavendefenders.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/damaged_cycle_track_2.jpg

Thank heavens Jones lives in a fictional Hastings where the weather always does what its told.