Feb 1985 lives in the memory; 8 inches of snow in about 4 hours in
Plymouth on a weekday as a low tracked up the English Channel trying to push
"up" against the cold air. All shops,schools and many places of work shut up
shop early afternoon. Result: every main road became blocked with cars, many
eventually abandoned, gritters and snowploughs unable to clear the roads.
Total chaos. Walk home from work.

This could happen later next week in the South.





"Damien" wrote in message
oups.com...
So which recent event - though I am going from my memory he-) - do
YOU think that this cold snap will be nearest to? (Other posters who
are well-informed on this particular subject matter can answer this
question as well.:-)):
-1979 winter (surely not! NO man would be SO bold, surely not?:-o :-))
-December 1981 (easterly),
-February 1985 (easterly),
-February 1986 (easterly),
-January 1987 (easterly),
-February 1991 (easterly),
-November 1993 (north-east-easterly),
-February 1994 (easterly - second best winter memory of my life),
-December 1995 (easterly - the BEST winter memory of my life),
-February-March 1996 (easterly of sorts, though still moderately
memorable),
-November 1996 (unlikely - as that was a slow-tracking but a
nonetheless snowy SOUTHERLY),
-Christmas Eve 1996 (north-easterly),
-January 1997 (easterly),
-April(!) 1998 (unusually potent north-easterly),
-February 2001 (unlikely - as that was a NORTH-WESTERLY),
-New Years Eve, 2003 (unlikely - as that was also a NORTH-WESTERLY),
-January 2004 so-called "thundersnow"/nothing where I live event (hope
not:-(, for obvious reasons),

???

:-p

D.