On 10 Oct, 20:40, wrote:
I don't know which Coventry site records you use for 1974, but I would
be surprised if the latter occasion was missed even on a city-centre
record, as I recall it was widely commented upon in the local
press ...

Thanks for those observations Stephen - I have made a note of them and
will investigate, perhaps in the local press archives.

Our daily weather diary entries for the early 1970's are very sketchy
to be honest - the local council site in the Memorial Park in Coventry
provided excellent data for the late 1950s and 1960's, but by 1974,
they were having trouble getting observers at weekends and on public
holidays. Diary entries therefore are unreliable to say the least, so
even if snow had fallen widely as you describe, it hasn't been
noticed, nor recorded unfortunately.

Baginton Airport started a Met Office site in 1974, but that's outside
of the city limits, and we didn't re-commence daily readings and
observatins until 1977, after a gap of about 20 years at the school.

You may be interested to know that even though we have a Met Office
AWS at Bablake (they installed a new one this summer), we still send
in a hand written Metform 3208B every month to maintain an accurate
weather diary in Coventry, as otherwise we would lose valuable
observations, like we did obviously in 1974!

Strangely, I still enjoy filling this form in every day, even the data
on the front, even though I doubt it is still used. Old habits die
hard!

best wishes

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk