Make merry - Telegraph It's late December and we are in the deep mid-winter; so bad weather is only to be expected. But the storm that has lashed the country just as millions of us are heading off to visit friends and family for Christmas is a nasty piece of work. Indeed, the depression that zipped across the Atlantic just in time to disrupt our travel arrangements has come close to registering the lowest pressure we have ever experienced in this country. This is the time of the year when we want the weather to be benign. We may dream of a white Christmas, but the reality is that our maritime climate rarely produces one. The vast majority are green and occasionally wet. And while we sing of seeing snow on the ground on Christmas Day, the priority for most is to get from A to B. That achieved, the next most important thing is to know that power lines have not been brought down which would mean a Christmas lunch of tinned sardines and a salad - albeit washed down with plentiful alcohol. We should count our blessings, though. The storm that has hit us left a trail of devastation in Eastern Canada, with deep snow, ice and temperatures of -15C. Here, by contrast, tomorrow promises to be calm and sunny across most of the country, which will suit most of us just fine. Merry Christmas.