Do You Remember This?

[Backtrack]

When pretty much the WHOLE country had snow?

Edited August 7, 2010 by Backtrack

[Nick L]

I witnessed the great winter of 2010!

[Turnedoutniceagain]

When pretty much the WHOLE country had snow?

Marvellous !! A fantastic foto.

[Zenarcher]

Excellent winter and sat image.

[Geordiesnow]

I do remember it, but i did not expect too see it in the summer thread. Maybe Joe's B of global cooling has already happened.

[laserguy]

Remember it? It's been my desktop background since the event!

[coldfingers]

When pretty much the WHOLE country had snow?

Ah if only it could happen this coming winter! First really good snowy spell we have had for years and years.

[Backtrack]

Ah if only it could happen this coming winter! First really good snowy spell we have had for years and years.

Here's hoping!

[The PIT]

Yes caused me loads of grief.

[kold weather]

It was a mental day, I think that was probably the busiest this board has ever been, must have easily been 5-6000 posts that day!

I remembering somehow getting to Guildford a few days later and there was about 8 inches, but a little further to the south there was a solid foot of snow, it was the first time I've ever seen a solid foot of snow, pretty amazing stuff!

[summer blizzard]

Truly amazing winter, coldest in 31 years and the eigth coldest in the past 100 years, also in the top 20% of coldest winters since records began.

For me, what stood out was the persistant snowcover, from December 18th to January 18th, the snow did not melt. The outstanding event was easily January 5th which brought eight inches of snow and possibly the most since 2000/2001 for a single event, i was also impressed by how often frontal snow events occured, though i was dissapointed that most of them brought the usual 1-2 inches however there were plenty of snow showers.

[Paul Sherman]

Lol

I can see Dorset

[Somerset Squall]

Lol

I can see Dorset

LOL

[Marcus_surfer]

That was a great week of snow.

[Optimus Prime]

24cm snow fell, greater than at any stange in 1947 and more than 1991 and 1981. A classic December and January.

Edited August 8, 2010 by Optimus Prime

[Boydie]

I hope we get a good period of cold and snow this year,Im not in to very hot temperatures (no problem this year then) and like the Autumn and winter.One down side of all the snow,Im a firefighter, and had one of my busiest winters for Road Traffic collisions,but the vast majority were minor as people tend to keep there speed down.Still you get the odd Idiot in a big executive car doing 80mph in the fast lane driving over 2-3 inches of hardpack.....

[knocker]

I hope we get a good period of cold and snow this year,Im not in to very hot temperatures (no problem this year then) and like the Autumn and winter.One down side of all the snow,Im a firefighter, and had one of my busiest winters for Road Traffic collisions,but the vast majority were minor as people tend to keep there speed down.Still you get the odd Idiot in a big executive car doing 80mph in the fast lane driving over 2-3 inches of hardpack.....

You can keep your cold winters. I still remember working at Larkhill Met. Office during the 1963/3 winter with 20 foot snow drifts and no heating in the office or the radar. Talk about cold; brass monkeys weren't even in the frame.

[Moomin]

We didn't really get that much snow in the oswestry area, not far into the Welsh mountains did though. HOwever, it was the temps that I'll remember for some time - seeing -12C on the car temp at daybreak was pretty impressive. We went away to Mull of Kintyre over New Year, there was no snow but the temperature did not get above freezing almost all the time we were there, the kids were skating on the streams that flowed over the beach and tha sand was as hard as concrete - I'd never experienced that before!

[Backtrack]

We didn't really get that much snow in the oswestry area, not far into the Welsh mountains did though. HOwever, it was the temps that I'll remember for some time - seeing -12C on the car temp at daybreak was pretty impressive. We went away to Mull of Kintyre over New Year, there was no snow but the temperature did not get above freezing almost all the time we were there, the kids were skating on the streams that flowed over the beach and tha sand was as hard as concrete - I'd never experienced that before!

That really would be an achievement to remember. Walking on a frozen beach!