Dave Ludlow wrote:

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:45:42 -0800 (PST), Scott W
wrote:

On Friday, 5 December 2014 17:35:43 UTC, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Andy M. wrote:
The snowiest places in the UK?

Ken makes the list at 5 come in at number 5.


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning...-10/snowiest-p
laces?WT.mc_id=Facebook_Content_Snow I suppose it's a case of they
would be wouldn't they. Be interesting to see if there is any change for
lowland England in the last 50 years. I'm sure it used to be somewhere
like Norwich in my old Geography books but maybe further West these days -
the M4 corridor seems to feature quite regularly.

I'm surprised Buxton isn't on there

Buxton appears to be just inside the 45 to 60 days range (at the lower
end) according to the Met Office regional climate maps so just misses
out on that top 10 list. It would do somewhat better if they limited
the list to real live towns and cities! Tideswell must do quite well,
too.

For the 5 years 2009-2013 the average annual number of days with snow/sleet
falling in Tideswell is 51. The highest was 73 days in 2010 and the lowest 30
days in 2011. The average annual number of days with more than 50% snow cover
at 0900z is 35. The highest was 63 days in 2010 and the lowest 14 days in 2012.

5 years is, of course, a very short averaging period and, as Ken in Copley has
pointed out, 2009-2013 was a realtively snowy spell.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org