On Aug 27, 10:49*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 27/08/11 18:53, Dave Cornwell wrote:





Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Aug 27, 1:31 pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

Colossal thunderstorm starting at 7 pm Friday 5 Sept 1958
with lightning of a frequency and type (rocket lightning) that I have
not seen since. About 60 mm rain in less than an hour. This was the
continuation of the Horsham Hailstorm. Spoilt for life at the age of
15.
London smog, Sat 6 Dec 1952. So dirty that indoors, in a
hall in central London it looked as if someone had set fire to all the
waste paper bins. Minimum visibility (outside) was about 10 yards,
which is less than it sounds. Much brake-stamping as the bus inched
its way through Hyde Park Corner. No fog above 350 ft.
Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey
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......... ah the memories come flooding back.
"Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen."

That was the day the sewage froze on the way into the Sewage Treatment
plant I was working at.

Dave

Sheesh what were the overnight minimums? Were local records set?- Hide quoted text -

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The overnight min here prior to the -9.2° max was -12.4°, not
my lowest, which was -12.9° on 10 Feb 86. The minimum after the low
max was only -10.0° due to cloud and snow, lots of it. The max's each
side of the 12th were -5.4° and -5.5°.
When I set up my screen in Sept 1982 I thought that the lowest
maximum I would ever record would be -6° , possibly -7° and that
anything lower (as a max) in this part of the country would be
confined to valley bottoms where fog had formed overnight and the sun
had failed to warm out the intense inversion. But this, far from
being an inversion, showed a dry-adiabatic lapse rate from the surface
and the maximum at the top of the North Downs (877 ft, 267 m) may well
have been -10°C. An extraordinary situation.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey. 556 ft.