"David Buttery" wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in
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I think it was February 1996 that what must have been a polar low
gave an unexpected 3 inches of snow in a couple of hours here.
I wonder if this was the same event. I can't imagine Liverpool getting
6 inches of snow in other than a polar low event.

That date sounds just right to me; I was living a few miles out of the
centre at the time (on the Aigburth/Grassendale border) and there were 6-
8 inches there. I walked into the city the morning after the fall (about
4 miles, from memory) expecting the depth to fall away considerably, and
was surprised when it didn't. Every other winter we just got slushy
sleety stuff; hail was actually a better bet for making things look
white!


Polar lows are no respectors of altitude, they can dump 6 inches on
the front at Blackpool as in the hills. In this case I suspect Liverpool
got more than me simply because it's futher west and nearer to the
low and indeed the Irish Sea the waters of which are the generator
of such a feature after all.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.