"David" wrote in message
...
I remember when I was a boy living in south Herts,, a short but fierce
fall
of snow one Maundy Thursday in late March or early April. It must have
been
around 1973 or thereabouts. Not dissimilar to today - temperatures of 4
deg
.or so, which fell dramatically, heavy snow for about an hour. 2 or 3"
lying. That's the only polar low snowfall I can recall in the London area
in
recent (or even not so recent) years.

1975 ... 15cm at Edgbaston Observatory, Birmingham. It lasted six hours.

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