On 23/03/13 17:42, willie eckerslike wrote:
On Saturday, March 23, 2013 1:28:46 PM UTC, Adam Lea wrote:
On 23/03/13 09:11, willie eckerslike wrote:

On Saturday, March 23, 2013 8:24:37 AM UTC, Adam Lea wrote:

On 22/03/13 22:11, Lawrence13 wrote:



I'm sitting here typing in SE London with two pullovers on...







And this time last year I was happily wandering around outside in a T



shirt. Your point being?



Why is everyone getting so worked up about this? Have we never experienced snow in March before?



I have photos somewhere of 4 inches of snow in my garden almost covering the flowering tulips. That must have been well into April. The photos were taken sometime in the 1990s but I don't remember the whole country descending into a panic then.



Neither do I remember too much panic when snow covered the cricket pitch in Buxton on 2nd June 1975 and the midday temp at Colchester was 2C.



Maybe you are all watching too many news bulletins from the hysterical TV presenters, and these have rotted the memory?



Missing the point. It is not about snow it is about the duration of the

cold. How long in those examples you give did the cold and snow last

before it got milder again? I can tell you June 1975 was no more than a

freak few days then immediately followed by a heatwave for starters. How

often at this time of year do you get 3+ weeks of SUSTAINED well below

average temperatures with no milder interludes right down to the south

coast and beyond. Can't be very often if you have to go back to 1987 and

then 1963 to find colder Marches.

1986 was a cold February, a below average March, and followed by an almost as cold April.

That is pretty sustained, and May was nothing to write home about either.

And was over 25 years ago.


1996, 2001 and 2006 had weeks of sustained below average temperatures between Jan 1st and Mar 31st.


We are talking about March only, not January and February.

Yes I remember 1996 as being cold right through to at least mid May, the
summer was very good though.

Oddly enough I don't remember March 2006 as being cold, although the CET
confirms it was.