"Col" wrote in message
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"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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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!

I've moved around a bit, but here are mine.

Leeds.
Late April 1981. 6 inches of wet snow brings down tree branches,
foolishly in leaf thinking it's spring.

Summer 1983. Torrential rain turns road outside my house into a
river. Torrents of water rage through the back garden.

January 1990. Burn's Night storm. I saw trees do things that day
I've never seen before or since.

Swansea.
February 1986. Seeing considerable build up of ice on the beach in
what is supposedly a very mild part of the country.

Bolton.
Jan 5th 2010. 11 inches of snow, and not only that, the snow lasting
for a number of weeks.

Of those events I think that it was Swansea in 1986 that was the
most remarkable in purely statistical terms. Ice build up even in
eastern areas must be pretty rare but for it to happen in a place
like Swansea must surely have been unprecedented.

I didn't mention the October 30th storm in Bolton.
This was incrediable, if only for the amazing speed it arrived..
That morning I recall having a bath, with a blustery southerly
drumming rain onto the south facing bathroom window. Nothing
unusual about that. But then everything went quiet for about
20 mins or so. By the time I had finished my bath I could here
the wind moaning agian, but from essentially the opposite
direction. 'That's odd' I thought.....
Within minutes a tremendous NW gale, gusts I estimated
at around 70mph blew up out of nowhere. Even more remarkable
than that, it started snowing quite heavily giving about an inch. In
almost 20 years of living in Bolton, this is the nearest thing to a true
blizzard I have known, and in October!

I remember grabbing the milk bottles in and the wind & snow
was almost impossible to face.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl