On Sat, 30 May 2015 08:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Saturday, 30 May 2015 12:15:11 UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 30/05/2015 12:04, Dave Cornwell wrote:
On 30/05/2015 10:17, Col wrote:
Jack Warner wrote:
On 30/05/2015 09:42, Col wrote:
On June 2nd 1975 it famously snowed in many places in the UK,
yet less than a week later temperatures were in the 80s
OK it won't snow on June 2nd this year but it looks like there
will be quite an intense low, more like January than June.
And less than a week later, we could well be in the 80s!
Interesting how exactly 40 years on the weather could well be
about to make another dramatic shift.
I've been thinking about that Col. I remember my Mom saying it
was snowing at about 7.30am, I thought she mistook snow pellets
for snow. However, when I looked out the window I was amazed, I
thought I was dreaming. LOL.
I don't remember it snowing, I was only 7, I wish I did.
My mum went to a job interview in Leeds city centre that day
and said that there was sleet there.
I would have been at primary school right up near the highest
point in Leeds so there would almost certainly have been proper
snow there, sadly I don't remember.
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I think that might have been the famous snow stops play in the
Essex match at Colchester.
1975 also was quite a good summer :-)
August 1975 was one of the warmest Augusts of the 20th century
and would have been remembered for a long time but for the following
summer which as we all know was even hotter, and much drier. There
was the Hampstead storm on 14 Aug 75 which dropped about 170 mm in a
couple of hours.
Depends where you were as to how dry 1975 was. In Suffolk, the dry
weather started after the June snow and continued through August 1976.
The last time I mowed my lawn in 1975 was in May. By autumn, it was
about 3" long and still looking greenish whereas all my neighbours'
lawns were brown.
At Christmas, there were still wide cracks in the lawn due to the
continuing drought. It reminded me of something my dad used to tell me
of a Boxing Day football match on the Dog and Duck ground in
Wellingborough where the grass around the pitch was dry enough to sit
on and there were cracks in the ground wide enough to slide his hand
in. I hadn't believed him because I was used to seeing that ground
under water - it was on the Nen flood plain - every winter.
Although areas further west had storms, the eastern half of East Anglia
mostly escaped them as the sea breeze set in after lunch and dispersed
the convective clouds before anything could develop further. This
regular sea breeze meant that the summer of 1975 was much better than
the following one as I only recall a couple of days where the sea
breeze set in and on one of those it only arrived at 1700 at
Felixstowe. !976 was a thoroughly unpleasant, oppressive summer,
particularly for anyone like myself who was working shifts.
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