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

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
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.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

"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.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:31:09 +0100, 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

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.

Steve

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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)

On 27/08/11 13:31, 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

Golf ball sized hail in Gtr Manchester when I was about 6 (1984). Have
memories of sheltering in the hallway of the house.

Burns days storm.

The 1995 hot summer and drought, and a resultant satirical piece on the
TV about calendars which went something like this:

"The Nick Leeson calendar, it's very expensive but you do get six years.
And here is the Yorkshire Water calendar, unfortunately it runs out in
mid July."

Freezing weather in December 1995, and a new record low for the UK in
Altnahara (later revised).

February 1996, Heavy rain suddenly turns to snow which accumulates and
completely gridlocks much of Salford.

June 1997. One of the worst summer months I have ever experienced.

February 1998, I was at Reading Uni now, and temperatures approaching
20C were recorded around the 14th.

June 1998 (I think) the Reading tornado, 20 mm of rain falls in 15
minutes, 160mm/hr rainfall rates recorded further north in Caversham,
pictures on the local news of collapsed walls and fences. The Students
Union was hit by flash flooding.

August 2003, Very hot.

July 2006, Again, very hot.

January 2010, the most snow I can ever remember seeing.

December 2010, see January 2010, plus getting to/from work was a nightmare.

Summers of 1955 and 1976 for long hot dry spells
Winter of 1962/3 for lots of snow and (even better) putting the
school hockey/lacrosse pitches out of action for weeks on end
:-)

September 2009 - floods
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1474069

January 2010 - disastrous amounts of snow
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666032
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666074
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666063

December 2010 - unable to get the car out of the driveway for 16
consecutive days owing to poor/non-existent snow clearing by the
local council :-(

Why is it that bad weather is more memorable than good weather?

Anne

On 27/08/11 15:11, Anne Burgess wrote:
Summers of 1955 and 1976 for long hot dry spells
Winter of 1962/3 for lots of snow and (even better) putting the
school hockey/lacrosse pitches out of action for weeks on end
:-)

September 2009 - floods
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1474069

January 2010 - disastrous amounts of snow
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666032
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666074
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1666063

December 2010 - unable to get the car out of the driveway for 16
consecutive days owing to poor/non-existent snow clearing by the
local council :-(

Why is it that bad weather is more memorable than good weather?

Anne





Because it tends to be more spectacular in appearance, and more
disruptive to your life.

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 technically the summer of 1976 was in my lifetime but I have no
memories of it at all - the only vaguely-connected memory I do have is
recognising that summer 1978 - the first summer I have any form of
clear memory of - was bad, so I must have had some sort of point of
reference. Winter 1978/79 was probably the most exceptional thing to
have happened from 1978 onwards in my lifetime, but memories are still
a bit shaky.

As for events I have a clear memory of, for winter I would have to say
January 1985, February 1986 and January 1987, and summer, 1983, 1989
and 1995. Though at the time, good summers were more frequent so they
didn't seem unusual. And for big thunderstorms, the summer of 1994.

Nick

On Aug 27, 3:30*pm, Nick 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

Well technically the summer of 1976 was in my lifetime but I have no
memories of it at all - the only vaguely-connected memory I do have is
recognising that summer 1978 - the first summer I have any form of
clear memory of - was bad, so I must have had some sort of point of
reference. Winter 1978/79 was probably the most exceptional thing to
have happened from 1978 onwards in my lifetime, but memories are still
a bit shaky.

As for events I have a clear memory of, for winter I would have to say
January 1985, February 1986 and January 1987, and summer, 1983, 1989
and 1995. Though at the time, good summers were more frequent so they
didn't seem unusual. And for big thunderstorms, the summer of 1994.

Nick

Sorry to follow up but I forgot the obvious one, the 1987 storm.
Probably the most significant event from an impact point of view, with
roads impassable and electricity off for several days. And my earliest
memory of a hot spell and thundery breakdown - late May/early June
1978. After several hot days it seemed to go very dark earlier than it
should do on May 31st, I went to bed and awoke an hour or so later to
an active thunderstorm. Further storms (more of the shower type) on
June 1st, and what I can now verify was a thundery cold front on June
4th. ISTR the rest of the summer being pretty poor, again later
verified. Does anyone else remember that particular hot spell?

Nick