On Aug 29, 10:56*am, John Hall wrote:
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Dave Cornwell writes:
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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.

Mine here in Surrey would be the same, with these additions:

The extended summer of 1959, when to me as a child it seemed as though
we had unbroken sun and warmth from early May to early October.
The downpour and flooding of September, 1968.
The remarkable spell of extreme cold and the heavy snowfall in January,
1987.
The blistering heat of 10th August, 2003, when I felt quite unwell
though my aged parents seemed to cope just fine.

I've remembered a couple mo

The White Christmas of 1970. This is the only time I can recall snow
falling in measurable amounts on Christmas Day itself. There was further
snow on Boxing Day and on the 27th.

The heavy rain and flooding in autumn 2000. There was one day - I can't
recall if it was in October or November - when all the roads out of the
village where I live were blocked by floodwater and I couldn't get to
work. This was only the third - and the last - time that the weather
prevented me from getting to work, in a career that began in October,
1968. The other two were the 1987 "Great Storm", when all the roads were
blocked by fallen trees, and the January snow earlier the same year.
(When my bus into Guildford ran as normal, but when I got to the railway
station there was a member of staff outside who said: "There are no
trains. We don't know when there will be any trains. We advise you to go
home.")
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John Hall
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That white Christmas of 1970 has some dear memories, we always moved
to the front room for Christmas and as my Hi Fi was there I moved that
into the only other warm room in the house-the kitchen.


There, as the afternoon light started to fade with snow falling all
day I set up the system Wharfedale Dovedale speakers, a Trio 2002 amp
and a Garrard sp25MkII turntable with the obligatory Shure
cartridge and there in the semi darkness watching the snow fall in a
rear garden with already some 9 inches, through the kitchen window, I
played John Lennon's first Album which had just been released.
Fantastic memories it didn't get much better than that. My family were
all safe and sound, it was Christmas, it was snowing and I was
listening to John Lennon. magical.