Hey, it's Britain in winter, expect chaos, anything less is a positive
But regards the weather fortune tellers, I suppose they have to justify their requirement somehow, be seen to be doing something useful, but in reality they are nothing more than fortune tellers.
But that always got me, why it is fortune tellers are regarded as a bit of fun and at worst hocus pocus and charlatans, when the weather forecasters do exactly the same, yet they are respected. Yeah sure they have pieces of junk orbiting the earth reading stuff and other means to help them, but it is a yes/no situation, that which has yet to happen cannot be defined as it is in the future.
I look at it this way, winter= cold= possibility of ice, be prepared for it and get on with life as normal.