Len Wood wrote:
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:25:57 AM UTC, Scott W wrote:
Apologies but I attached the wrong blog on that last post



Of interest to contributors in the Home Counties I have published a snow survey / winter index on my blog for my area in east London. It is inspired by the old Snow Survey of Great Britain which ceased publication after the 1991/92 season.



Further to Dave Cornwell's comment a few weeks back that people mostly remember a winter through the amount of days with snow lying I decided to use the data I produced for my winter forecast and try to find out what snow cover has been like in my area going back to 1946/47 - the first year of the original snow survey. I then divided the snow lying days by the winter mean to give the index. I realise there is the work of Bonacina to consider but as this is national I wanted to look more indepth



Not surprisingly the 62/63 season came out a long way ahead of the rest - mostly through the sheer sustained depth of the cold. There's also one or two surprises - strange how the memory can fool you.



It is a work in progress and I would welcome any input.



http://wp.me/p2VSmb-iS

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It's good work Scott.
Of course snow figures highly in most peoples perception of winter.
One very mild month, eg Feb 2011, can skew the winter mean towards mild.

But that winter (2010-2011)had Dec 2010 as remarkably snowy and therefore remembered by Jo public as being cold. It does not rank as cold overall though in the last 60 odd years.

Len
Wembury, SW Devon, where it rarely snows

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Hi Len - if you haven't already check out the duplicated thread above as
more replies.
Dave