"John Hall" wrote:
Dave Cornwell writes:

Third time lucky? Bit too late now for much interest after the glorious
last
few days. How does it go again .... if only it were January. ;-)

I recall, after a snowless winter in 1974-5, waking up on Good Friday
morning to find two inches of snow on the ground. Once the sun came out,
it all disappeared in an hour or two.
--
In central Birmingham there was a good 15cm on the afternoon of
Maundy Thursday 1975 from a mesoscale disturbance ... completely
unexpected (few satpix and no radar then, of course) ... I'd not
long been working at Edgbaston Observatory at the time. It triggered
my first ever TV appearance (it's been downhill ever since - on
Midlands Today with Derek Hobson (remember him?) who presented
the entire evening news programme from the street outside the studio
with a camera poking out of a first floor window. It's been downhill
ever since. The MO observer at Elmdon who collected our obs
simply didn't believe it until he watched the TV that night ... I think the
airport had 3 or 4cm. The wet slushy stuff froze hard overnight, and
that meant we had a snow cover for four days.

Philip