"danny(west kent)" wrote in
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"We are entering a climate like parts of Africa etc. Dry spells followed by
wet spells. A very predictable climate dare I say it.
The times are a changin' "

"18 years of Boring winters and they put you on the mild shift"

Sub fifty two eight dam lack of snow sick blues

"You do need a weather man to tell how to choose your clothes"
Dylan Corbett

Highway 89 revisited
Desolation snow.

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The times are a changin' "

"18 years of Boring winters and they put you on the mild shift"

Sub fifty two eight dam lack of snow sick blues

"You do need a weather man to tell how to choose your clothes"
Dylan Corbett

Sad eyed Lady of the Snoooooooowlands




"danny(west kent)" wrote in
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Highway 89 revisited
Desolation snow.

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The times are a changin' "

"18 years of Boring winters and they put you on the mild shift"

Sub fifty two eight dam lack of snow sick blues

"You do need a weather man to tell how to choose your clothes"
Dylan Corbett

Actually there are a couple of Bob Dylan tracks that use cold snowy winter
nights as the back drop to a romantic scenario

Winterlude
On a night like this.

Of course Bob is from Minnesota, so he should know what his talking about




"danny(west kent)" wrote in
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Highway 89 revisited
Desolation snow.

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The times are a changin' "

"18 years of Boring winters and they put you on the mild shift"

Sub fifty two eight dam lack of snow sick blues

"You do need a weather man to tell how to choose your clothes"
Dylan Corbett

Richard, Jan 1997 was cold both day and night with 5 or 6 inches of snow,
however, it pails into complete and utter insignificance compared to Jan
1987, where we had some of the lowest temperatures since 1740. In the
centre of Gillingham, my car was completely buried by snow. I had an
enforced week off of work due to the severe snow falls. There were drifts
in many places over 20 feet deep.

Shaun Pudwell.


"Richard" wrote in message
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Scott Whitehead wrote:
It will be 18 years next month since we (the South East) had anything
like an interesting winter - January 1987. We experienced impressive

1987?? Admittedly, that was a nice winter but the winter of 1997 was
also rather cold. At least, that was just across the North Sea here in
the Netherlands.

Richard

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:26:45 -0000, "Shaun Pudwell"
wrote:

Richard, Jan 1997 was cold both day and night with 5 or 6 inches of snow,
however, it pails into complete and utter insignificance compared to Jan
1987, where we had some of the lowest temperatures since 1740. In the
centre of Gillingham, my car was completely buried by snow.

in Kent..not the Gillingham in Dorset!!??

Shaun Pudwell wrote:
Richard, Jan 1997 was cold both day and night with 5 or 6 inches of snow,
however, it pails into complete and utter insignificance compared to Jan
1987, where we had some of the lowest temperatures since 1740. In the

Oh absolutely. I quite distinctly remember that year since that was the
year I was a freshman at the local university. And since that was in the
northern part of the Netherlands one tends to get slightly extremer
weather there. I remember a huge blizzard, clumps of ice hanging from
trees, sagged powerlines. But even '87 pales in comparison to the winter
of '78/79. I was only 13 then but that winter is my *great winter*.
Snow, snow and lots of more snow. Blizzards causing villages to be cut
off from the rest of the world w/o power and or gas. Now *that* was a
winter. In '97 I already had moved to the Hague and winters here on the
coast are rather more .. erm .. lame. So when the winter of '97 came
by and surprised me a bit. It absolutely wasn't of the same magnitude of
the winters of the 80's (also '86 was quite a winter and I also remember
lost of snow in '81). But it did give me the last opportunity to use my
ice-skates. Up to this year I haven't had an opportunity to use 'em
again. Such a shame!

I'd take anything! lol.

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"Richard" wrote in message
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Shaun Pudwell wrote:
Richard, Jan 1997 was cold both day and night with 5 or 6 inches of
snow,
however, it pails into complete and utter insignificance compared to Jan
1987, where we had some of the lowest temperatures since 1740. In the

Oh absolutely. I quite distinctly remember that year since that was the
year I was a freshman at the local university. And since that was in the
northern part of the Netherlands one tends to get slightly extremer
weather there. I remember a huge blizzard, clumps of ice hanging from
trees, sagged powerlines. But even '87 pales in comparison to the winter
of '78/79. I was only 13 then but that winter is my *great winter*.
Snow, snow and lots of more snow. Blizzards causing villages to be cut
off from the rest of the world w/o power and or gas. Now *that* was a
winter. In '97 I already had moved to the Hague and winters here on the
coast are rather more .. erm .. lame. So when the winter of '97 came
by and surprised me a bit. It absolutely wasn't of the same magnitude of
the winters of the 80's (also '86 was quite a winter and I also remember
lost of snow in '81). But it did give me the last opportunity to use my
ice-skates. Up to this year I haven't had an opportunity to use 'em
again. Such a shame!

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:52:04 +0100, Richard wrote:


But even '87 pales in comparison to the winter
of '78/79.

Was 78 the year it seriously snowed about Deecember 8th- loads of
people caught in a Carol service where I work apparently...

Robin Nicholson wrote:

Was 78 the year it seriously snowed about Deecember 8th- loads of
people caught in a Carol service where I work apparently...

Well, in did start off in December with a lot of snow. I remember that
it eventually became impossible to clear the ice of snow (since we over
here enjoy ice-skating). But the real work started in January and things
got really bad in February. The 14th of Febr. still stands clearly in my
mind.
I woke up listening to a fullblown storm. The day before it had rained
cats and dogs but since the lower part of the atmosphere was still below
0C it had all frozen over. Roads and all had been covered with an
ice-layer with sufficient thickness that you could use ice-skates on it!
The frontal system however was pushed back during the night giving way
to a full blown blizzard.
So when I woke up I was listening to the howling wind. I had to go to
school so I woke up (thank God I still had an old fashioned alarmclock
that didn't run on electricity ) only to realize there was no power ..
and no heating .. anyway, I got up and went to school. Outside I saw the
snow was flowing horizontally through the streets. There were these
dunes/piles of snow all around the place. And using a bike or car was
truly impossible because of the ice-layer beneath the snow. So I had to
go on foot.
This was quite an experience and being a 13 year old lad it made an
everlasting impression. I wore two pairs of trousers but even with this
I could feel the cold coming through. Anyway, I got to school to be sent
home again immediately because there were no teachers and almost no
students. This was all on a Tuesday if memory serves me right. The
schools remained closed the rest of the week.
Electricity and gas returned after two days approx. I remember my dad
being really worried since we had central heating and he was afraid all
the pipes were to be frozen over. So he manually had to keep the water
flowing in the pipes which was quite a chore. But since I was only a
young lad, the only thing I did for the rest of the week was .. being in
the streets! It was truly amazing. Snow piling up to 1 or 2 meters in
places (caused by the wind or simply because snow had been cleared
manually from places) and seeing how the Army was deployed to keep
villages reachable. Haven't experienced such a winter again.