"Nick G" wrote in message
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I was living in Worcester at that time, and I am sure it was Boxing Day
1985.

I have just been looking through some old (and very unclear) notes made at
the time and the cold spell I was referring to seems to have happened in
Feb
1985 (not 86), I think the extremely cold spell started around the 7th Feb
when rain turned to snow.

I do remember a day starting very wet and ended up by evening frozen with
deep snow. I recall that the cold spell lasted a week at least with
further
snowfall and the temperatures remained below freezing day and night.
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Nick G
Exe Valley, Devon
45 m amsl


I recall that one in February 1985. That was excellent. I was in Ormskirk, S
Lancashire and I remember it raining in the morning. It was very dark. Later
in the day the rain turned to sleet, then wet snow. Most of us at college
got quite excited. This wet snow carried on for about 3 hours and then
suddenly it began to settle. By 7.00 pm there was quite a covering. A depth
built up to around 6 inches or so. This was on the west side of the country.
It was amazing.

Snow lay for at least 2 weeks and in other parts of the country there was
deep snow and widespread drifting.

I have never experienced a cold spell like that one. We always see snow
turning to rain, yeah, it bores us to death. But RAIN turning to SNOW and
then setling like that.

That was a very rare event.

Gavin.