Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2018 at 4:37pm:
Snow had become more rare in southern England when I arrived there in Dec 1978—as my uncle advised. A sled he had bought for his youngest son remained in the shed—not enough snow.
So like Richard Flannery I suspect this is a quote taken wildly out of context. The original article containing the quote is no longer online.
We had the beast from the east, we had 52" of rain in one week in Houston last year etc and Lees says there is no extreme weather? Arctic melting in the middle of winter not extreme? Plenty of powerful hurricanes hit the Caribbean and Florida last year. Plenty of extreme weather.
That must be why it has been removed.

It has however been quoted by the Daily Telegraph.
"The Independent, 2000:
Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries … Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community … According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said. "
Now you have said a warmer world is a wetter world, more precipitation. I guess he just doesn't know what he is talking about.
" we had 52" of rain in one week in Houston last year"
Wow. A hurricane that sat motionless over a city for how many days?
Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2018 at 4:37pm:
and Lees says there is no extreme weather?
Nope. You are deliberately misinterpreting what I said.
Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 23
rd, 2018 at 4:37pm:
Plenty of powerful hurricanes hit the Caribbean and Florida last year.
Yes Four in one hit. And even that had been done before. So not unprecedented.

Plenty of extreme weather. But is it more extreme, more often or something else.
Think like the scientist you are supposed to be.