On Aug 27, 3:30*pm, Nick 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

Well technically the summer of 1976 was in my lifetime but I have no
memories of it at all - the only vaguely-connected memory I do have is
recognising that summer 1978 - the first summer I have any form of
clear memory of - was bad, so I must have had some sort of point of
reference. Winter 1978/79 was probably the most exceptional thing to
have happened from 1978 onwards in my lifetime, but memories are still
a bit shaky.

As for events I have a clear memory of, for winter I would have to say
January 1985, February 1986 and January 1987, and summer, 1983, 1989
and 1995. Though at the time, good summers were more frequent so they
didn't seem unusual. And for big thunderstorms, the summer of 1994.

Nick

Sorry to follow up but I forgot the obvious one, the 1987 storm.
Probably the most significant event from an impact point of view, with
roads impassable and electricity off for several days. And my earliest
memory of a hot spell and thundery breakdown - late May/early June
1978. After several hot days it seemed to go very dark earlier than it
should do on May 31st, I went to bed and awoke an hour or so later to
an active thunderstorm. Further storms (more of the shower type) on
June 1st, and what I can now verify was a thundery cold front on June
4th. ISTR the rest of the summer being pretty poor, again later
verified. Does anyone else remember that particular hot spell?

Nick