On 10 Feb, 18:49, "Col" wrote:
"Fred" wrote in message

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I feel really envious of all this extreme weather all around the UK,
because here on the Fylde coast near Blackpool we've had nothing! On the
Sunday night just over a week ago we had a VERY light dusting of snow, but
not enough to cover the ground, and it vanished within a few hours, and
since then nothing! Last Friday afternoon I was hearing reports of severe
weather in other parts of the UK, but here it was unbroken wall-to-wall
sunshine. If I recall correctly, we've only had seriously disruptive snow
twice in the last 30 years in this area, in 1981 and again in the 1990s.

I've had up to 5cm but for the really heavy falls, they might as well
be on another planet as far as I'm concerned.

You need a polar low to get any significant snowfall right down
there at Blackpool. I'm at 160m so I get a fair few days of snow
with relatively small amounts of a few cms. Beyond that for
significant snow a polar low or a front that becomes stuck over
NW England as happened in early Feb 1996.
This area of the country simply isn't condusive to heavy snowfall.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

It depends very much on altitude. Sometimes conditions 1000ft above
sea level in East Lancashire can be very conducive to heavy snowfall!

Steve

Steve Graham
950ft AMSL
Rossendale