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  1. I remember this month fairly well. Living in Nottingham at the time... A few days of freezing temps, certainly bitter ice days one weekend, no idea which dates. Followed by some very heavy snow, which to be fair didn't hang around long.
  2. Metwatch yes always try to mention Feb 1985. I think it must have been a fairly midlands based event ( I was near Walsall) The best drifting and cold combination I can remember....
  3. Yeah looks it, although I'm away from Wimbledon today in the Midlands where it's warm, bright and very windy. Doesn't feels anything special here yet at least.
  4. This does sound wrong .... I walked between Kingston and Kew regularly along the Thames in winters 09/10 and Dec 10 and can confirm huge areas were frozen over with great ice sheets floating downstream. My friends in Shepperton further upstream talked about breaking the ice to go kayaking near the weir.
  5. Plenty of time to go at the home of the Wombles but nothing remarkable yet. Slight covering this morning when I got up at 9, now temperature above 2c and it's all melted. Snowed lightly all morning nevertheless.
  6. Hey Walsall Wood. I remember some of those events. Don't remember Jan 86 but March 87 I remember very well. Heavy wet snow yes and a driving wind. I had a cross- country match that day in Rugeley and remember the race very well and the slow journey there- rare occasion I ran whole event with Gloves and full track-suit. I didn't do too well if I remember. I also seem to have read since that this was a relatively local event to Staffordshire and the north midlands. Sadly Dec 1990 the next famous fall I was trapped at Uni in Devon and by the time I got back the melt was full on. Some impressive drifts still about, but from what I can tell despite the huge fall not on the scale of Feb 85- perhaps because the snow was much wetter and couldn't drift so much. Feb 1991 was similar in that I was also in Devon but came back that weekend to rehearse for the only proper live gig my band ever did at Junction 10 a few weeks later!! Certainly freezing cold and some great drifting though once again not on Feb 85 levels. I must dig some photos out from my parents collection of some of these! Oddly I don't remember snow in Nov 1988 but I vaguely remember snows as early as 1981 even or earlier.
  7. Great to hear the recollections of people. I lived just north of Walsall during those years through my early teens and remember them very well. Certain events stick in my mind. 83-43 had nothing much special but one decent snowfall in January 1984- clearly remember making snowmen, then when I got home on the sunday evening to get ready for school found out I was covered in a rash which turned out to be german measles! Two weeks off school and I never did get the hang of algebra which was first introduced during those two weeks. I remember Jan 1985 being cold and snowy but that was the build up really to the main event in early Feb- still the best snow event I've seen in the UK. Snow started early on the school day (Thursday I think and double French) by the time I went home there were huge drifts, buses and cars going no-where in Walsall- even the main roads were a foot deep and this at rush-hour! Took me hours to get home (mostly walking the 6 miles). The next few days were exploring the huge drifts that had built up, but in brilliant cold sunshine... amazing. Feb 86 was in comparison mostly dry, very cold and only light dustings of snow. Jan 87 also provided huge snowfalls but nothing like the massive drifts which we got in Feb 85. Would love to experience that again
  8. On the contrary- the grains were there! not many I admit.
  9. Sleety snow just arrived in Wimbledon- pretty unpleasant out there and no winterwonderland
  10. Yes I remember having to go up there for work in Winter 2004- huge drifts almost blocking the lanes when down in Oxted there wasn't even a dusting!
  11. Some light snow in Wimbledon, but was coming down pretty heavy when I left Guildford an hour ago!! Not really settling though.
  12. Slight thaw in Wimbledon and temps around 1C at my place. Quite depressing grey. What could be sadder than a grey day thaw? Only dead puppies...and there would have to be a lot of them
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