To explain this as simply as possible as maybe its a bit alien to my friends in America....
UK newspapers have a very very bad habit of reporting complete nonsense about the weather here - you really have to see it to believe it.
And the very very worst culprit of that is and has always been the Daily Express (actually a paper I like because it is very right wing).
I’m not saying they’re wrong - but normally they grossly over exaggerate in terms of weather predictions.
It does seem a bit over the top, but there is science behind this story. Wish I would have bought Natural Gas futures at $50 a few weeks ago - now they’re at $90 (UGAZ)