On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:17:51 +0100, Nigel Morgan
inspired by Deep Thought wrote:



I remember sitting in a classroom at Garrett's Green Tech College on that same
June afternoon watching the snow swirling round - and then by the Friday of that
week the temperature was nearly in the eighties!

Somehow I don't see the same thing happening this summer (i.e. getting a similar
warm summer of course!)

Nigel

Aagh! Every time I learn something new... it pushes something old out of my brain!

I've just looked at the 500mB & 850mB charts for that day in 1975 & it was
interesting to note that the 500mB thickness was between 536 & 540dam & the
850mB air temp was only between 0C & -2C... and no lower than it's forecast to
be over eastern England at 12Z on Tuesday 7th June this year - with the wind in
the same quarter!!

What seemed to have caused the snow in 1975 was a deepish low that developed &
came down the North Sea dragging cold polar air in behind it over the UK - a
pattern that's been repeated numerous times this Spring so far!

Nigel

Aagh! Every time I learn something new... it pushes something old out of my brain!