Peter

I'm so glad you put a date to the 1933 event.

My father had great weather stories in his day and his memories of 'bad'
snows included 1933. He used to tell the story of blizzards of very fine,
powdered snow coming in through the key-hole of the family's front door. So
much so that it built up on the INSIDE of the front door - the house being
very cold inside anyway! His stories come from the midlands of Ireland and
if this Low was the culprit then it must have travelled west beyond UK? Must
look up the charts now.

Regards,

Joe




"Peter Clarke" wrote in message
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The item you mention , Tom, is on page 205 of the book and the date of the
snowfall was 25 Feb 1933 when the snow was 6 ins deep at Durham and 30 ins
deep in Teesdale at 800ft.
It's quite rare , of course to find a low moving west in winter but I
remember another occasion in December 1946 when a low moved west from
Denmark which gave widespread snow but not on the scale of 1933.
Peter Clarke
Ewell 55m