And Scotland, unlike the rest of the UK, decided against satellites "because of the difficulty of getting enough clear weather for flyovers", a Scottish government spokeswoman told the BBC.
Neil Hickman, the council's assistant director of highways said they had a network of 75 farmers who helped clear snow in bad weather.
In the evenings, chamois (a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Europe) click across the surrounding rocks, and if the weather is clear you get the most unusual of mountain views, peering down onto ships far below on the Atlantic Ocean.
According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
Staff at both Belfast City and Belfast International airports are confident they will clear most of the backlog of passengers waiting for flights delayed and disrupted due to the bad weather on Friday.
There was a break in the weather that allowed crews to get out before the afternoon rush hour and clear some of the major thoroughfares, the station reported.
All of this is happening despite clear evidence from the best scientists that global warming is already causing extreme weather events and it's only likely to get worse.
Nottinghamshire went into their last game against Lancashire two points ahead of Somerset, but saw the Cidermen pick up maximum bonus points to go six points clear while they spent much of the first three days in the pavilion at Old Trafford because of bad weather.
FITSAT-1 will try and fulfill all requests for appearances, but it can't control the weather, so you'd better hope for a clear night if it visits your part of the world.
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