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As I've only recorded one snow lying day (2nd Feb) I thought I'd look
back to see if I've had another Winter with only 1 snow lying day since
1960, and there have been two.

I have resigned myself to the fact that high pressure (and a mild one at
that) looks like taking over for some considerable time if the long
range charts are to be believed and where mild weather is concerned they
are rarely wrong.

The two other guilty Winters were 1975 and 1976 both had at least a
centimetre of lying snow which is more than can be said for 2008 which
just managed a covering and sadly I can't see anymore coming our way.

The only positive thing I suppose is March 1975 had 4 snow lying days
and a fall of over 15cms on the 27th and March 1976 had 2 snow lying
days and a fall of 6.5cms on the 26th, so all is not lost.
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Graham wrote:

As I've only recorded one snow lying day (2nd Feb) I thought I'd look
back to see if I've had another Winter with only 1 snow lying day since
1960, and there have been two.

I have resigned myself to the fact that high pressure (and a mild one at
that) looks like taking over for some considerable time if the long
range charts are to be believed and where mild weather is concerned they
are rarely wrong.

The two other guilty Winters were 1975 and 1976 both had at least a
centimetre of lying snow which is more than can be said for 2008 which
just managed a covering and sadly I can't see anymore coming our way.

The only positive thing I suppose is March 1975 had 4 snow lying days
and a fall of over 15cms on the 27th and March 1976 had 2 snow lying
days and a fall of 6.5cms on the 26th, so all is not lost.


Offering another straw to clutch at, 1975 also had lying snow in June in
East Anglia.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." [Chic Murray, 1919-85]
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On 5 Feb, 17:25, Graham P Davis wrote:

Offering another straw to clutch at, 1975 also had lying snow in June in
East Anglia.


Erm, no it didn't ... Sorry to disappoint another 'urban myth'. Snow
or sleet showers fell quite widely on 2 June 1975 as far as the south-
east of England, but no snow lay anywhere except on the hills in the
north and west. The famous picture of 'snow stops play' was taken, not
in East Anglia, but at Buxton cricket ground in Derbyshire - at an
altitude a little in excess of 300 m AMSL. I can vouch from personal
observation that many of the hills in north Wales were also snow-
covered that morning, but nothing below 300-400 m or so.

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Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire
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Offering another straw to clutch at, 1975 also had lying snow in June in
East Anglia.

I wouldn't have thought so!

We had snow in June 1975 but it wasn't lying, and we are 228 metres asl
in North Staffordshire.

The latest lying snow I've recorded was May 2nd 1979

1978-79 was unique really with snow lying days in every month from
November to May including the whole of January and February.
Over 80 snow lying days from November 1978 to May 1979, I've only had 85
snow lying days in the last 8 years (2001 to 2008).

How amazing is that, even more so when you think of the mild Winters we
now get, chances of that happening again must be zero!
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