Reference :- It's snowing in Victoria

Reference :-  Victoria hasn't been this cold in Spring for twenty years . Ice Age Watch anchorman Rowan Dean will be thrilled . 

Rowan , what great news this is . Snow in Victoria !   You might have to wait until after the weekend to run your story , but I doubt that the snow , or your tumescence , will have subsided by then . 

Anyway Rowan , on this occasion we are most keen  that you put a good effort into your next weather boy appearance .   And this is why . 

Up in the Arctic circle the town of Verhoyansk is surrounded by wildfires , and the mercury hit a record 38 centigrade yesterday .  We  have a Russian relative living there,  Cousin  Rackinoff, who took an early retirement in Siberia , but is finding the weather too hot lately  .   He did take a brief holiday in Spain , but they were also experiencing record heat there , and cousin Rackinoff is more of your  " a few vodkas indoors by a roaring fire " type . 

Nothing would please him more than watching his favourite weather boy dancing about in front of pictures of snow .  The permafrost at Verkhoyansk  has been melting faster than a dollop of butter on a hot BBQ plate , and his driveway has collapsed .  Also the four lane highway out of town , the railway lines , the power cables and the gas pipeline . If you could throw in a few predictions about the coming ice age and how the permafrost will freeze again it would really cheer him up. 

Thanks for that Rowan , although we never see him , we do sometimes fear that Uncle Rackinoff  gets depressed about the weather and hits the Smirnoff too hard .

Your comrade , Ken .