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On 30/11/2013 23:22, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Saturday, 30 November 2013 23:09:39 UTC, wrote: On 30/11/2013 20:48, Dave Cornwell wrote: Lawrence Jenkins wrote: On Saturday, 30 November 2013 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Lea wrote: On 30/11/2013 14:57, Dave Cornwell wrote: Jim Cannon wrote: Thanks Keith. Before July I also noticed the similarities with 1962 - but then July proved warm and sunny, completely unlike the wet, cold and miserable summer of 1962. Obviously November has reverted to 'being like 1962'... Who knows - another 1963 style winter could happen but on past form the chance is 1 per cent. 1987 is obviously my yardstick for cold in my lifetime - but I can remember the midnight forecast on R4 all those years ago predicting 10C for Saunton Sands - while East Anglia stayed below freezing ------------------------------------------------------------- It's right up there. Being older of course I have 1963 but 1987 was something worthy of an Express headline. Am i right in assuming that Jan 1987 was more severe (in terms of low temperatures and snow depth) than Jan 2010. Was the significant snow as widespread as Jan 2010? In the SE Adam it was far more significant than ever December 2010 in terms of depth and longevity . In fact serious cold snowy spells in the SE going back purely from memory. 1997 1991 1989 1088 1985 81/82 pre Christmas 78/79 Christmas 1970 62/63 Plus other falls that are hazy unless I look them up. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 years on and William had another battle with the 1088 winter :-) Just proves that Larry is has old as as old as methuselah ;-) Did you see the Day of the Doctor last week Larry? Hey you cheeky sod, I've just turned 61 and I'm as fit as a fiddle a Stradivarius in fact. How old is that? I'm 9 years younger than you :-P |
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On Sunday, 1 December 2013 00:19:11 UTC, wrote:
On 30/11/2013 23:22, Lawrence Jenkins wrote: On Saturday, 30 November 2013 23:09:39 UTC, wrote: On 30/11/2013 20:48, Dave Cornwell wrote: Lawrence Jenkins wrote: On Saturday, 30 November 2013 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Lea wrote: On 30/11/2013 14:57, Dave Cornwell wrote: Jim Cannon wrote: Thanks Keith. Before July I also noticed the similarities with 1962 - but then July proved warm and sunny, completely unlike the wet, cold and miserable summer of 1962. Obviously November has reverted to 'being like 1962'... Who knows - another 1963 style winter could happen but on past form the chance is 1 per cent. 1987 is obviously my yardstick for cold in my lifetime - but I can remember the midnight forecast on R4 all those years ago predicting 10C for Saunton Sands - while East Anglia stayed below freezing ------------------------------------------------------------- It's right up there. Being older of course I have 1963 but 1987 was something worthy of an Express headline. Am i right in assuming that Jan 1987 was more severe (in terms of low temperatures and snow depth) than Jan 2010. Was the significant snow as widespread as Jan 2010? In the SE Adam it was far more significant than ever December 2010 in terms of depth and longevity . In fact serious cold snowy spells in the SE going back purely from memory. 1997 1991 1989 1088 1985 81/82 pre Christmas 78/79 Christmas 1970 62/63 Plus other falls that are hazy unless I look them up. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 years on and William had another battle with the 1088 winter :-) Just proves that Larry is has old as as old as methuselah ;-) Did you see the Day of the Doctor last week Larry? Hey you cheeky sod, I've just turned 61 and I'm as fit as a fiddle a Stradivarius in fact. How old is that? I'm 9 years younger than you :-P Well a couple of weeks ago it was eight-so there. |
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On Saturday, 30 November 2013 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Lea wrote:
Am i right in assuming that Jan 1987 was more severe (in terms of low temperatures and snow depth) than Jan 2010. Was the significant snow as widespread as Jan 2010? You certainly are as far as this place is concerned. On 12 Jan the min was -12.4°C follwed by a 12-hr max of -9.2°C with sunshine and a light wind. The 24-hr max was -8.9°C. In the evening it started snowing and continued for about 2 days, to a total level depth of 39 cm here. I don't think the snow was very widespread. There was much less in west Surrey but the North Downs in Kent got a monster dumping (over 3 feet) and Essex got quite a lot. No blizzard - force 4 max and mostly less. A short but very intense cold spell, with the snow all gone by the 24th. Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft. |
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Tudor Hughes writes: On Saturday, 30 November 2013 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Lea wrote: Am i right in assuming that Jan 1987 was more severe (in terms of low temperatures and snow depth) than Jan 2010. Was the significant snow as widespread as Jan 2010? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- You certainly are as far as this place is concerned. On 12 Jan the min was -12.4°C follwed by a 12-hr max of -9.2°C with sunshine and a light wind. The 24-hr max was -8.9°C. In the evening it started snowing and continued for about 2 days, to a total level depth of 39 cm here. I don't think the snow was very widespread. There was much less in west Surrey Even in Cranleigh in SW Surrey we got quite a dumping, which is very unusual. The snow only lasted for the one night here, but there must have been 25-30cm. We haven't had a single fall as heavy as that since, and I'm not sure that I can remember one quite as heavy previously. Surprisingly, the buses were running (they must have done a very good job of gritting the roads), but when I arrived at the forecourt of Guildford Station there was a railwayman telling everyone: "There are no trains. We don't know when there will be any trains. We advise you to go home." So I did. but the North Downs in Kent got a monster dumping (over 3 feet) and Essex got quite a lot. No blizzard - force 4 max and mostly less. There wasn't enough wind for any drifting that day, but I remember that the wind got up enough the next day to cause some, even though it wasn't actually snowing. A short but very intense cold spell, with the snow all gone by the 24th. Yep. -- John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat The subjects of the King, And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton: Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers" |
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Lawrence Jenkins writes: John: For London it wasn't just a foggy spell it was 'the' foggy spell and remarkably ten years after the 52 fog/smog. 62 smog/fog was almost equal to 1952; since then we have never had another spell quite like that. Probably the two worse post war and possibly pre war fog/smog events in the twentieth century to date; for London that is. The good thing was that the 1962 fog resulted in a far smaller death toll than in 1952, thanks to the "Clean Air" act starting to take effect. Even though emissions of the nasty stuff hadn't yet ceased they were much lower than 10 years previously. Out her in rural Surrey I don't remember the 1962 fog as having been too bad. (I was only four in 1952 and don't remember that fog at all.) -- John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat The subjects of the King, And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton: Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers" |
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On Sunday, December 1, 2013 11:01:58 AM UTC, John Hall wrote:
In article , Lawrence Jenkins writes: John: For London it wasn't just a foggy spell it was 'the' foggy spell and remarkably ten years after the 52 fog/smog. 62 smog/fog was almost equal to 1952; since then we have never had another spell quite like that. Probably the two worse post war and possibly pre war fog/smog events in the twentieth century to date; for London that is. The good thing was that the 1962 fog resulted in a far smaller death toll than in 1952, thanks to the "Clean Air" act starting to take effect. Even though emissions of the nasty stuff hadn't yet ceased they were much lower than 10 years previously. Out her in rural Surrey I don't remember the 1962 fog as having been too bad. (I was only four in 1952 and don't remember that fog at all.) -- John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat The subjects of the King, And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton: Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers" In industrial Castleford it was appalling. Not fog, but nasty smelling smog, which necessitated scarves around one's mouth to attempt to strain the pollution out of it. I remember it very well, though I was very young. My parents were not able to get home to Pontefract on Christmas Eve 1962 and us all had to stay with an aunt and uncle. Only one prezzie on Christmas morning wasn't fun! Santa didn't know where I was and delivered them to Pontefract, of course! If you stood in the middle of a 5m wide pavement, you could see neither the road, nor the walls of the terraces, the smog was that thick. The bus conductors were hanging out of the bus calling the distance from the kerb to the driver - before they stopped running, of course, leaying us stranded! We had great difficulty finding our way only 200m along the pavement to our relations' flat in that fog. By far the worst I've ever known and thank goodness we don't see the like of it any more. |
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On Sunday, 1 December 2013 15:52:40 UTC, Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, December 1, 2013 11:01:58 AM UTC, John Hall wrote: In article , Lawrence Jenkins writes: John: For London it wasn't just a foggy spell it was 'the' foggy spell and remarkably ten years after the 52 fog/smog. 62 smog/fog was almost equal to 1952; since then we have never had another spell quite like that. Probably the two worse post war and possibly pre war fog/smog events in the twentieth century to date; for London that is. The good thing was that the 1962 fog resulted in a far smaller death toll than in 1952, thanks to the "Clean Air" act starting to take effect. Even though emissions of the nasty stuff hadn't yet ceased they were much lower than 10 years previously. Out her in rural Surrey I don't remember the 1962 fog as having been too bad. (I was only four in 1952 and don't remember that fog at all.) -- John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat The subjects of the King, And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton: Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers" In industrial Castleford it was appalling. Not fog, but nasty smelling smog, which necessitated scarves around one's mouth to attempt to strain the pollution out of it. I remember it very well, though I was very young. My parents were not able to get home to Pontefract on Christmas Eve 1962 and us all had to stay with an aunt and uncle. Only one prezzie on Christmas morning wasn't fun! Santa didn't know where I was and delivered them to Pontefract, of course! If you stood in the middle of a 5m wide pavement, you could see neither the road, nor the walls of the terraces, the smog was that thick. The bus conductors were hanging out of the bus calling the distance from the kerb to the driver - before they stopped running, of course, leaying us stranded! We had great difficulty finding our way only 200m along the pavement to our relations' flat in that fog. By far the worst I've ever known and thank goodness we don't see the like of it any more. Blimey Paul. you are no spring chicken then? As to the smog and fog : call me masochistic but I still love the stuff that feeling of enclosure when it came down with sunset late in a November early December was just wonderful. |
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![]() I'm still trying to work out Dave's link to William -the *******......no not Dave , William the Horse chestnut ------------------------------------------ You have a winter of 1088 in your list. Was that the winter of our discontent? Dave |
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On Monday, 2 December 2013 15:57:40 UTC, Dave Cornwell wrote:
I'm still trying to work out Dave's link to William -the *******......no not Dave , William the Horse chestnut ------------------------------------------ You have a winter of 1088 in your list. Was that the winter of our discontent? Dave Nah that was Richard III much later around 1480. Hold up a mo............ah...now I see yes 1088 I remember it well the year Odo had a go go.For him it was a no no. |
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Dawlish wrote:
On Sunday, December 1, 2013 11:01:58 AM UTC, John Hall wrote: In industrial Castleford it was appalling. Not fog, but nasty smelling smog, which necessitated scarves around one's mouth to attempt to strain the pollution out of it. I remember it very well, though I was very young. My parents were not able to get home to Pontefract on Christmas Eve 1962 and us all had to stay with an aunt and uncle. Only one prezzie on Christmas morning wasn't fun! Santa didn't know where I was and delivered them to Pontefract, of course! If you stood in the middle of a 5m wide pavement, you could see neither the road, nor the walls of the terraces, the smog was that thick. The bus conductors were hanging out of the bus calling the distance from the kerb to the driver - before they stopped running, of course, leaying us stranded! We had great difficulty finding our way only 200m along the pavement to our relations' flat in that fog. By far the worst I've ever known and thank goodness we don't see the like of it any more. From a meteorological point of view it would be fascinating to experience, but beyond that it's just as well we don't get such conditions anymore. It must have been highly unpleasant even for the fit & healthy, but of course deadly for the old & vulnerable. Thousands of 'excess deaths', but this is what the Clean Air Act was introduced to tackle and now thankfully those days are long gone. -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl Snow videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg |
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