"John Hall" wrote in message
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Paul Alcock writes:
Il'e Eat my Slippers if we get any decent snow (1ft) this year!


You set your standards high if you reckon only a foot or more of snow
counts as "decent". Here in lowland west Surrey, the deepest level snow
I've ever experienced was 18 inches in 1962-3, which was the total of
several falls in late December and early January. I can remember about
three or four other occasions in the last 40 years when there was close
to a foot, the last time being January, 1987. So even before global
warming really set in, it was something on the order of a once per
decade event here.

I have never recorded a foot of level snow. The best that Epping can offer
(since 1979) was 25cm on 9/10/13th Feb 1991 and 22cm on 12th December 1981.
Snow enthusiasts in this part of the world looking for 'deep, crisp and
even' snow will despair when they look at my snow data table
http://tinyurl.com/437ae

Even in the much discussed 1962/63 winter, living on the rural/urban fringe
of N.London (Enfield), the deepest I measured was about 10" (25cm) just
after Christmas 1962 - after that there was a very slow rotting/compaction
of the lying snow with a couple of modest 'top-ups'.
Having studied the equally renowned winter of 1947 I doubt if this area
managed 12" of level snow then - limited initial depth and several
interruptions by milder air.

All the best
--
George in mild Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk