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- 981107 Jersey snowstorm, Nov
1980 Rockall apart, they are
geographically the most remote part of the British Isles, although ‘remote’ is not a
word that most people would
- 981226 Boxing Day snowfalls White Christmases have been few and far between
during the last 100 years, but a trawl through the record books shows that
white Boxing
- 990925 September snow September 25 appears twice in London’s meteorological annals – in
1885 and 1895. The two entries
epitomise the fickleness of the British
- 991002 October snow October weather varies enormously from one year
to another. It is essentially an autumn month, of course, but occasionally
winter boldly invades, two
- 991218 White Christmases The twentieth century produced a
handful of White Christmases although snow lay countrywide only in 1981,
1970 and 1938. Arguably the
- 000311 Unexpected snowstorm, March 1970 On the front page of The Times
the summary weather forecast proclaimed “sunny and cold”. But even as the
paper was read
- 000624 Snow in June Snow, a heatwave, hailstorms, record-breaking
sunshine, a drought, and a damaging frost: that sequence of events sums up
Britain’s oddest June
- 001216 Pre-Christmas snowstorm of 1920 Pre-Christmas snowstorms are rare in the UK, and most of
those which have happened – in 1909, 1938, 1950, 1981 and 1990, for
- 001223 The White Christmas of 1938 The last Christmas before the Second World War, that of
1938, was arguably the 'whitest' of
the twentieth century. Snow fell daily
- 010210 “The wrong kind of snow” What can you remember of ten years ago? With a little
bit of memory jogging, most people recall three things from February 1991.
The Gulf
- 010317 Our snowiest winters This year brought a reversion to rather more normal
winter weather compared with the recent long run of mild years. Some seem
to think it
- 011207 Snow on the ground Snow is one of the most variable aspects of the British
climate – variable both in space and in time. Snow or sleet is observed to
fall on just two
- 011215 Pre-Christmas snowstorms,
1981 Over 20 years
ago Britain experienced one
of the coldest and snowiest months of the last century. Severe weather is
generally much
- 011222 More in white Christmases If the early computer predictions are right, this year
may well deliver one of those rare Christmases when significant amounts of
snow fall in
- 020125 The great south Wales snowstorm of ‘82 Major snowstorms
in the UK in the last ten
years can be counted on the fingers of one hand, in marked contrast to the
1980s
- 020330 White Easters In some parts of
the UK 'white' Easters have occurred marginally more frequently than 'white'
Christmases during the twentieth entury. Snow
showers
- 020928 September snow in Munich Snow fell in Munich on 25
September 2002,
coating cars with slush and disrupting traffic heading south towards the
Austrian border.
- 021220 Snow lay for 70 days The winter of
1962-63 is remembered by all of us who were around at the time; it was
easily the coldest winter (not the snowiest – that was
- 021227 Snow in the 1990s The winters of the last 15 years have been mostly mild
and snow-free, but there have also been occasional spells of wintry
weather. Some of these
- 030222 The New York snowstorm of 2003 The ferocious
snowstorm which hit the eastern
seaboard of the USA in Feb 2003 was
described as the worst for eight decades
- 031220 The White Christmas of
1968 The most
memorable white Christmas of my youth happened in 1968. Not everyone who
was around at the time will recall it because
- 031226 The snowstorms of Dec
1995 It is almost impossible to change the
view, often heard in casual conversation, that they don’t make winters
like they used to. Professional
- 040124 The snowy January of
1984 Our coldest
winters in Britain do not always
bring widespread snowfalls. February 1986 was a case in point: there have
been only three
- 040207 Birmingham seizes up "GRIT-GATE",
the Birmingham Evening Mail called it. Yes, Birmingham, along with several other towns and cities enjoyed a
brief taste of winter