On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 at 13:31:09, Dave Cornwell
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982

Mine would also be the snow depths & extreme cold of 1981/2.

Not to mention the floods of 2007, of course!
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 at 14:04:42, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

I don't remember events that I can date apart from the summer of 1976.
It was much too hot for the air conditioning systems I was supposed to
be maintaining.

I remember it being very hot for a long time, and the dryness, but I was
too young to really appreciate the significance at the time.

The Oct'87 storm missed us for the most part.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Aug 27, 1:31 pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

Colossal thunderstorm starting at 7 pm Friday 5 Sept 1958
with lightning of a frequency and type (rocket lightning) that I have
not seen since. About 60 mm rain in less than an hour. This was the
continuation of the Horsham Hailstorm. Spoilt for life at the age of
15.
London smog, Sat 6 Dec 1952. So dirty that indoors, in a
hall in central London it looked as if someone had set fire to all the
waste paper bins. Minimum visibility (outside) was about 10 yards,
which is less than it sounds. Much brake-stamping as the bus inched
its way through Hyde Park Corner. No fog above 350 ft.
Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey
----------------
I don't know how I could've forgotten to mention the smog Tudor! When
dense fog meant dense fog. I remember struggling to find my own home (on
foot)from just a couple of hundreds of metres away.
Also did that 1958 storm affect Essex? Perhaps that is the one I
referred to?
Dave

Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Aug 27, 1:31 pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

Colossal thunderstorm starting at 7 pm Friday 5 Sept 1958
with lightning of a frequency and type (rocket lightning) that I have
not seen since. About 60 mm rain in less than an hour. This was the
continuation of the Horsham Hailstorm. Spoilt for life at the age of
15.
London smog, Sat 6 Dec 1952. So dirty that indoors, in a
hall in central London it looked as if someone had set fire to all the
waste paper bins. Minimum visibility (outside) was about 10 yards,
which is less than it sounds. Much brake-stamping as the bus inched
its way through Hyde Park Corner. No fog above 350 ft.
Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey
------------
.......... ah the memories come flooding back.
"Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen."

That was the day the sewage froze on the way into the Sewage Treatment
plant I was working at.

Dave

In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other
regional perceptions would be.

Mine here in Surrey would be the same, with these additions:

The extended summer of 1959, when to me as a child it seemed as though
we had unbroken sun and warmth from early May to early October.
The downpour and flooding of September, 1968.
The remarkable spell of extreme cold and the heavy snowfall in January,
1987.
The blistering heat of 10th August, 2003, when I felt quite unwell
though my aged parents seemed to cope just fine.
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)

Dave Cornwell wrote in news:cs56q.12902
:

Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

A mixture of regional and very local...

1987 and 1991 snows in NW Kent (18, 12 inches)
1994 - June MCS with its gust front and then 2 hours of C-C lightning.
Properly remarkable and I think the same storm that I recall counting 33
flashes of lightning in 1 minute (this could have been 1996 though!)
1995 - violent thunderstorm with heavy hail in Reading on the morning of
my birthday at 4am. Was over as soon as it started but had about 3-4
close CGs and apparently was quite localised (Bill Pike wrote about it in
Met Mag in 1996, IIRC)
2001 - Wimbledon - seeing a CG hit the road opposite 20 metres away
whilst I was indoors in my flat.
2003 (?) - Hottest day ever which in itself was stifling, but where I
went for a picnic with friends and a fairly sizeable (20m or so?) dust
devil went through the fields we were on straight through a cricket
match! I also saw a lady walk past me with a fleece and woollen hat
on...!

Richard

On Aug 27, 1:31*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me *and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

Well Dave, they must include the January 1987 blizzard,
http://www.peterpuddiphattphotograph...o_1997906.html (the
photo name suggest '97, it was '87)
Quite amazing for the tip of Cornwall.

The Mount's Bay storm surge of October 27th 2004
http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF

Above all the storm of March 10th 2008 http://www.sennen-cove.com/ts06.htm
, which was a pretty scary event, the weather warning having been
lifted the previous low tide. Possibly the scariest pic
http://www.sennen-cove.com/10mar09.htm That's a pretty substantial
breakwater, but you wouldn't think it from the pic. Those waves are
10m.

From a personal perspective, I did record 90.2mm in 2 hours when in
Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, on 2nd June 1982, which appeared in the
MetO Hydrological Bulletin.

Graham
Penzance

John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other
regional perceptions would be.

Mine here in Surrey would be the same, with these additions:

The extended summer of 1959, when to me as a child it seemed as though
we had unbroken sun and warmth from early May to early October.
The downpour and flooding of September, 1968.
The remarkable spell of extreme cold and the heavy snowfall in January,
1987.
The blistering heat of 10th August, 2003, when I felt quite unwell
though my aged parents seemed to cope just fine.
------------------
I think it was a Sunday and I was playing cricket. I remember us lying
under the wheeled covers for shade while we watching our innings. ( I
should hasten to add that this was the only club I know that had covers
at our level - I wasn't playing first class cricket at 53!)
Dave

1976 scorched earth summer

1979/80/81 snowstorms

mid 80s' ball lightning, cant remember

1987 siberiean freeze
1987 freak storm
1991 freeze
1998 mild hell feb
2003 august 38c
thundersnow in s.e cant remember date but philip eden on lbc raving about it
2010 jan mega snow
2010 dec mega snow



On 27/08/2011 1:31 PM, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

On 27/08/11 18:53, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Aug 27, 1:31 pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other regional
perceptions would be.

The only others really are a couple of notable blizzards, the record
minimum low temps of 1982, the high max of Aug 2003 close to me and a
T/S in the fifties that flooded our road so deep that people were
canoeing along it!

Dave, S.Essex

Colossal thunderstorm starting at 7 pm Friday 5 Sept 1958
with lightning of a frequency and type (rocket lightning) that I have
not seen since. About 60 mm rain in less than an hour. This was the
continuation of the Horsham Hailstorm. Spoilt for life at the age of
15.
London smog, Sat 6 Dec 1952. So dirty that indoors, in a
hall in central London it looked as if someone had set fire to all the
waste paper bins. Minimum visibility (outside) was about 10 yards,
which is less than it sounds. Much brake-stamping as the bus inched
its way through Hyde Park Corner. No fog above 350 ft.
Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey
------------
......... ah the memories come flooding back.
"Cold day, 12 Jan 1987. ( I had the day off work to take my Mum
to hospital for a "1500-mile service" on her new hip.) I could
scarcely believe it as the thermometer failed to get above -9.2°C
despite sunshine. A temperature of about -7°C in sunny central
Croydon at about 2 pm felt positively eerie. In the next 48 hours the
snow depth (at home) increased from about 8 cm to 39 cm, the deepest
level depth I have seen."

That was the day the sewage froze on the way into the Sewage Treatment
plant I was working at.

Dave

Sheesh what were the overnight minimums? Were local records set?