On Friday, February 7, 2014 3:06:31 PM UTC, John Hall wrote:
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Adam Lea writes:

On 06/02/2014 19:27, John Hall wrote:

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Dave Cornwell writes:

I certainly can't recall such relentlessly similar charts since I've

been looking at computer models over the last 10 years. The thing

that strikes me is the small variation in the tracks of the lows. Apart

from zero cold snaps (or even hints at them in future charts) there

haven't been any brief northerlies or north westerlies which

usually occur during the odd transitional phase.

Dave, S.Essex



I think you might have to go back to 1962-3 to find a winter as

remarkable as this one, for southern England at least. Of course 1962-3

was remarkable in a very different way. I can't remember another winter

with such frequent or (for the most part) deep depressions affecting us.





1989/90?



I don't thing in that winter it kept up quite so unrelentingly for so

long. Mind you, as it was only just over 20 years ago it's a bit recent

for me to remember it clearly.

--

John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat

The subjects of the King,

And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:

Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

The difference with that one was that it wasn't as cyclonic - spells with westerlies and pressure around 1016mb in the south were more frequent (source wetterzentrale). ISTR a lot of drizzly warm sectors and a fair few mild but dry days that winter. I don't think there was such extensive heavy shower-type rainfall, apart from during two weeks in December before Christmas. I actually don't remember that winter as being spectacularly wet - less so than 93/4 or 94/5 for example - yet apart from 1914/5 it is the wettest winter on record. Maybe the extreme south had it drier in 89/90 - the pressure patterns would suggest that was the case.