George Booth wrote:
On 08/02/2013 20:08, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
As you have correctly stated elsewhere Darren - no signs of any
real cold and no true Easterly or N.Easterly driven from
Scandinavia for 17 years now. If you accept people won't have
accurate information from before they were 10 years old that
means nobody under 27 can remember real cold spells. As the
opinion formers and media pundits become younger so the
definition of a bitterly cold spell becomes diluted we will see an
increasing number of these non-cold "cold spells" !

Surely December 2010 counts as a real cold spell, even if it perhaps
wasn't quite as severe in Essex as it was over most of the country.
After all, months (and especially Decembers) with a CET below zero have
always been pretty rare. ISTR that we had NE winds for some of the time,
though at other times they were more northerly.


December 2010 was the coldest since I started recording in this part of
Essex in 1978

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I standby my feeling that younger people have a different concept of a
cold spell to me!
I agree the spell in December stands out.It may have been the coldest
since then George and I know the snow was greater further west,
especially on higher ground as you are but for here there is no
comparison in severity with 1979,1981 and 1987 and in terms of snowfall
many, many others before then. Most snowfall in the last few years has
come from the west and tended to die out further East. Pre 1990 snow
often came in from the East and petered out towards London. I worked in
East London and there were many occasions when we had six inches of snow
in East Essex and Kent only to find almost no snow in Greater London.
The days of heavy snow showers have all but gone in these parts.
Dave