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,
Lawrence13 writes:
There wasn't a lot of snow in the SE in the 30's either even though a
cold decade.

Going by your next two sentences, did you mean the 1970s?

If my memory serves me well I can only remember 1970 at
Christmas and 78/79. There may have been some falls in rural areas in
other years but only those two years stand out for snow in SE London.

And in Surrey too. The winters from 1970-1 to 1975-6 were all mild, and
1974-5 was exceptionally so. Then the winters turned successively colder
over the next three years. February 1978 had a notable blizzard in the
SW (probably the worst in that region since March, 1891), but the snow
didn't reach Surrey or London (even though the forecast on the preceding
evening had been for it to do so).

In our part of the world both the 1960s and 1980s taken as a whole were
snowier than the 1970s, in spite of 1978-9.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article
,
Lawrence13 writes:
There wasn't a lot of snow in the SE in the 30's either even though a
cold decade.

Going by your next two sentences, did you mean the 1970s?

If my memory serves me well I can only remember 1970 at
Christmas and 78/79. There may have been some falls in rural areas in
other years but only those two years stand out for snow in SE London.

And in Surrey too. The winters from 1970-1 to 1975-6 were all mild, and
1974-5 was exceptionally so. Then the winters turned successively colder
over the next three years. February 1978 had a notable blizzard in the
SW (probably the worst in that region since March, 1891), but the snow
didn't reach Surrey or London (even though the forecast on the preceding
evening had been for it to do so).

Yes, I've heard about that.
It's a good job this group didn't exist back then, Lawrence would have been
on suicide watch when that one failed to happen
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

On Oct 19, 7:09*pm, "Col" wrote:
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In article
,
Lawrence13 writes:
There wasn't a lot of snow in the SE in the 30's either even though a
cold decade.

Going by your next two sentences, did you mean the 1970s?

If my memory serves me well I can only remember 1970 at
Christmas and 78/79. There may have been some falls in rural areas in
other years but only those two years stand out for snow in SE London.

And in Surrey too. The winters from 1970-1 to 1975-6 were all mild, and
1974-5 was exceptionally so. Then the winters turned successively colder
over the next three years. February 1978 had a notable blizzard in the
SW (probably the worst in that region since March, 1891), but the snow
didn't reach Surrey or London (even though the forecast on the preceding
evening had been for it to do so).

Yes, I've heard about that.
It's a good job this group didn't exist back then, Lawrence would have been
on suicide watch when that one failed to happen
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl- Hide quoted text -

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How do you know I wasn't and I'm talking from beyond the grave
whooooooo.

and no replies saying that you sound like you are ;-)

Lawrence13 wrote:
On Oct 19, 7:09 pm, "Col" wrote:


Yes, I've heard about that.
It's a good job this group didn't exist back then, Lawrence would
have been on suicide watch when that one failed to happen
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

How do you know I wasn't and I'm talking from beyond the grave
whooooooo.

and no replies saying that you sound like you are ;-)

Just the one foot, just the one
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:09:02 +0100, Col wrote:

"John Hall" wrote in message
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And in Surrey too. The winters from 1970-1 to 1975-6 were all mild, and
1974-5 was exceptionally so. Then the winters turned successively
colder over the next three years. February 1978 had a notable blizzard
in the SW (probably the worst in that region since March, 1891), but
the snow didn't reach Surrey or London (even though the forecast on the
preceding evening had been for it to do so).

Yes, I've heard about that.
It's a good job this group didn't exist back then, Lawrence would have
been on suicide watch when that one failed to happen

I recall a similar blizzard near that time but 1978 would have been too
early. I reckon the one I'm thinking of would have happened a year later.
Whatever year it was, I took wellington boots to work in the morning so
as to be ready for the trudge home through the deep snow. As soon as I
saw the charts in the Met Office entrance hall, I thought, "it ain't
gonna happen!" According to the thickness pattern, the low appeared to be
situated in the left exit of one jet and the right entrance to another
and would be steered SE into France and miss us. Which is what happened.

A while later, I reran analyses and forecasts, modifying data, and
produced a report on what I'd found which, if I remember rightly, was
very little. Although it was obvious to me from the charts that morning
that the snow would miss us, I couldn't tweak the data going into the
Rectangle model to provide the correct answer.




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On Oct 19, 6:43*pm, John Hall wrote:


And in Surrey too. The winters from 1970-1 to 1975-6 were all mild, and
1974-5 was exceptionally so. Then the winters turned successively colder
over the next three years. February 1978 had a notable blizzard in the
SW (probably the worst in that region since March, 1891), but the snow
didn't reach Surrey or London (even though the forecast on the preceding
evening had been for it to do so).


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I remember that '78 blizzard vividly. A number of us were on a geology
field trip staying in a hostel somewhere near Watchet and Blue Anchor
in Somerset, in an adjunct to the main building. Aftrer what was
evidently serious snowfall and drifting overnight we were awoken by
the sound of shovels digging us out of a drift that had almost reached
the top of the door.

With all the geology being covered in snow and ice we didn't achieve
much. Nice pubs, though.

Stephen.