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Graham Easterling writes
On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 1:20:15 PM UTC, Freddie wrote:
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:31:05 UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:

When I was living in Wootton Bassett, Wilts (it wasn't royal then)
we had a blizzard on 26th April 1982. My maximum temperature that
day was 2.0C. There was overnight easterly gale with a general cover
dawn, but with significant drifting. We lost electricity for several
hours. There was a steady thaw in the afternoon, but according to my
weather diary it was "Easily the heaviest snowfall of the year". It
remained mainly as rain along the Thames valley just to the north
(around Lechlade) Just a small altitude difference had a big impact.

A minor point, but wasn't that April 1981? IIRC April 1982 didn't
experience any snow in that part of the world...

Yes, you are quite right, it was 1981.

Graham

That makes sense. I was puzzled that it could have been easily the
heaviest snowfall of the year, given the heavy snowfall across most of
the south in January 1982.
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