Past winters discussion

[Snowyowl9]

Too far north for that snow on the 18th 1999 nothing here.

This either side it gave snow 2 inches some overnight drifting.

And a covering and started to drift from this to start followed by a slow thaw.

 

 

[Weather-history]

49 minutes ago, Snowyowl9 said:

Too far north for that snow on the 18th 1999 nothing here.

This either side it gave snow 2 inches some overnight drifting.

And a covering and started to drift from this to start followed by a slow thaw.

 

 

 

[Snowyowl9]

The forecast very underwhelming for the 24th late February 2006,did very well here for snow and a blizzard on the 24th max of 1c not 6c as that low came in from the east,the wind was strong too with gales from the east.

Big drifts.

 

 

 

Edited February 21, 2016 by Snowyowl9

[I remember Atlantic 252]

This day failed snow here, bbc banging on about loads of snow, but nothing, days leading up though were snowy, 21st to 23rd, but slow thaw on 24th

[Snowyowl9]

38 minutes ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

This day failed snow here, bbc banging on about loads of snow, but nothing, days leading up though were snowy, 21st to 23rd, but slow thaw on 24th

Strange one that as the forecast shows the opposite showing snow but little or rain to the late February 2006 similar set-up mini low far better,but it was the coldest day of that spell with snow here and some drifting with a covering 1.4cmax but wnd.

Edited February 21, 2016 by Snowyowl9

[damianslaw]

Was living in the NE in Dec 99 and it was quite a decent cold spell mid month, plenty of heavy snow showers around the 13-14, which deposited about an inch of snow. Remember the weekend of 18/19 being very frosty and icy, hazardous and we managed a couple of ice days.

Overall quite a decent cold snowy spell.

 

[Weather-history]

Wowser! I can't believe it, I stumbled across this by chance. 3rd January 1986,  I have always remembered this, I knew Michael Fish did the forecast and I knew he said could be an hour or two of snow before it should turn back to rain. The forecast underestimated or the night before forecast did about snowfall amounts and turning back to rain. It never did here. The forecast starts after 4 minutes

 

Edited February 22, 2016 by Weather-history
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[Weather-history]

The late Tony Benn lamp post watching? News and a forecast during mid January 1984

 

[Thundery wintry showers]

As one of the comments on YouTube noted, this was clearly taken from the 15th January 1984.  I can tell from the pressure chart on the forecast by Michael Fish:

Note the "innocuous looking low" just to the west of Ireland. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

1 minute ago, Thundery wintry showers said:

As one of the comments on YouTube noted, this was clearly taken from the 15th January 1984.  I can tell from the pressure chart on the forecast by Michael Fish:

Note the "innocuous looking low" just to the west of Ireland. 

feel if we had that setup now, just rain at low levels in the south, average temp rise of say 0.3C enough to make a difference

[damianslaw]

Great footage from Jan 1984. It was a very snowy month over Scotland, N Ireland and N England, there must have been a very cold pool to our NW, every bit as cold as you would expect from a NE or E feed.

Particularly like the footage of Glenridding.

Alas I was slightly too young to remember winter 83/84. I do have vague memories of the snow in Jan and Feb 85.

Early Jan 86, remember there being some snow around, but memory very hazy.. indeed don't really remember winters properly until Jan 87.

To have been born in the early 70's rather than late 70's would have been good, as a child there was a long run of cold snowy episodes from winter 76/77 through until 86/87 which would have coincided with the childhood years of 5 years to 15 years.

The most formative years are roughly speaking between about 9 and 12 years old, for me this coincided with a very lean time for snow and cold i.e winter 87/88 - winter 90/91 (latter winter was ok, the 3 before shocking), conversely we had two very good summers in 1989 and 1990, and a half decent one in 1991, can't have it all... the summers from 77 to 88 were mostly very poor..

Edited February 23, 2016 by damianslaw

[MP-R]

On 2/20/2016 at 9:34 PM, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

before my 'internet' days, only had bbc weather, but this by bbc was a fail, promised me a snowfest, and nothing

but at least I had the 'new' Atlantic 252 to help the disappointment of no snow!

Interestingly, that event brought a decent fall of snow in these parts but on Tuesday 20th, it was pretty much snow all the way through and during the day, then the temperatures rose behind the front and the dripping began overnight. Woke up on Wednesday 21st with nearly all the snow gone and only heaps on the sides of the road left. I think there was a temperature difference of almost 10C between the two days here.

[cheeky_monkey]

On ‎21‎/‎02‎/‎2016 at 9:21 PM, damianslaw said:

Was living in the NE in Dec 99 and it was quite a decent cold spell mid month, plenty of heavy snow showers around the 13-14, which deposited about an inch of snow. Remember the weekend of 18/19 being very frosty and icy, hazardous and we managed a couple of ice days.

Overall quite a decent cold snowy spell.

 

Decent cold snowy spell?...I wouldn't even get out of bed for that

[I remember Atlantic 252]

8 hours ago, MP-R said:

Interestingly, that event brought a decent fall of snow in these parts but on Tuesday 20th, it was pretty much snow all the way through and during the day, then the temperatures rose behind the front and the dripping began overnight. Woke up on Wednesday 21st with nearly all the snow gone and only heaps on the sides of the road left. I think there was a temperature difference of almost 10C between the two days here.

Tuesday dry, Wed light sleet/rain

[damianslaw]

6 hours ago, cheeky_monkey said:

Decent cold snowy spell?...I wouldn't even get out of bed for that

Granted it wasn't anything special, especially temp wise, fairly normal stuff.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

wish winters were still like this, prob last winter before the m/e (approx) very snowy evening developed here, went in to town (23m lower) disappointed as I thought it turned back to rain, back 2 hours later, snowfest here, just rain town (81m asl)

[Snowyowl9]

A bitterly cold NE-ly in mid spring.

[Thundery wintry showers]

Early March 1999 was a non-event in Tyneside, with the cold Arctic air largely mixed out with warmer air from within a depression sat over the North Sea.  It was notable for some very high rain (and sleet) totals though, and probably produced a fair amount of snow over the Pennines and the tops of the North York Moors.  Indeed, I remember that the Central England Temperature ended up only just below average.

By the way, I note a striking resemblance between the charts for 28 February 1998, and 19 January 1958:

Although the latter event did produce a snow cover on the 1st March 1998 in South Tyneside, it soon melted, as a gap developed between the Greenland high and Azores high, allowing milder westerlies to come through the gap in between.  I remember being disappointed because I had been hoping to get a good few days of arctic north-westerlies from it, as indeed happened following the January 1958 chart.  Perhaps the key "tell-tale" difference is the lower heights over southern Greenland in the February 1998 chart.  

Edited March 7, 2016 by Thundery wintry showers

[I remember Atlantic 252]

still remember this 25°C max in march 3-4 days of warm, even hot feeling weather, bright blue skies and sun, similar being modeled? hope models drop the nuisance drizzly easterly

[sundog]

1 hour ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

still remember this 25°C max in march 3-4 days of warm, even hot feeling weather, bright blue skies and sun, similar being modeled? hope models drop the nuisance drizzly easterly

That was our summer that yr lol, the summer itself being a washout.