What I have seen and read to date, this 1000 year event is more for Eastern European, in particular Russia... Should it happen. I believe weather patterns are changing, as they have done over over the millions of years this planet has existed. I do feel this is ramping in its purest form. If people where able to predict the weather with such clarity, boards like this would not exist. What we get, is what we get. Personally, I never look beyond 24/36 hours in advance and yes it can be exciting with the POSSIBILITY for snow. Nothing like the weather to cock up peoples plans..... After being unemployed for sometime and only recently secured a job in London (start this week), I am dreading it, if it snows big time down here (more than an inch). They just cannot cope with it all and they never, learn lessons from it all. Getting back on topic, how many times last winter were peoples expectations dashed with a updates 24/48 hours out... Ran out of fingers!