On Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:58:16 UTC, Freddie wrote:
dawlish Wrote in message:
I pose it as a question, but would the synoptic situation that we've had over the past 24 hours have submerged southern England in a blanket of snow 20+ years ago? We've now got fairly strong north-easterlies and cold rain at the most, over England.

No, as the continent is not cold. You have an Easterly that is 36
hours old, and the presssure pattern that caused the easterly
originated over the SW Approaches and propogated eastwards. An
identical synoptic situation 20 years ago would've had an
identical effect, all other things being equal.

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Think people forget that at least in London in the sixties and seventies, without checking the records, that every winter was settled snow fall or snowfall. I remember in 1980/81 that being a very mild non eventful winter in the SE. Actually it was just before Christmas 1980 I read a small article in the Telegraph about a company called 'Weather Action' and their spokesman a Mr Piers Corbin predicting an exceptionally bitter winter. Of course it didn't happen.