I'm pretty sure the event that I recall was in April and was unlikely
to be 1975 as I wasn't in London then. It seems that we're probably
talking about different events.

I could have sworn it was Good Friday 1975 but checking my diaries I
recorded 15 to 20 cms falling on the 27th March 1975, which was a Thursday.
Now my mind is playing tricks on me. To make matters worse I have a photo
from the local sentinel newspaper attached to the weather page which clearly
shows deep snow with the headline 'Easter 1975 in Hanley (our City centre)
after snowstorm'
My diary does go on to report snow showers, some heavy following well into
April (up to the 10th). More famously of course was the snow event on June
2nd 1975 when we also had snow.
Didn't London have snow lying in 2013? There must have been a fair bit then,
we had a blizzard on the 22nd March, We had around 25 to 30 cms lying at
09.00 on Saturday 23rd with deep drifts blocking a number of roads!


Graham (North Staffordshire)

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I'm pretty sure the event that I recall was in April and was unlikely
to be 1975 as I wasn't in London then. It seems that we're probably
talking about different events.

I could have sworn it was Good Friday 1975 but checking my diaries I
recorded 15 to 20 cms falling on the 27th March 1975, which was a Thursday.

That would be Maundy Thursday, typing in with what Trevor says.
Presumably it didn't reach SE England tiill the following day, by that
time not being as heavy.

Now my mind is playing tricks on me. To make matters worse I have a photo
from the local sentinel newspaper attached to the weather page which clearly
shows deep snow with the headline 'Easter 1975 in Hanley (our City centre)
after snowstorm'
My diary does go on to report snow showers, some heavy following well into
April (up to the 10th). More famously of course was the snow event on June
2nd 1975 when we also had snow.
Didn't London have snow lying in 2013? There must have been a fair bit then,
we had a blizzard on the 22nd March, We had around 25 to 30 cms lying at
09.00 on Saturday 23rd with deep drifts blocking a number of roads!

I don't know about London, but in my part of Surrey we didn't have any
lying snow at all that month. I think there was heavy sleet one evening,
at that was it.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

I was living in South London in 1978/9 and there was definitely heavy snow one April, a good 3 inches. I'm fairly certain it would have been 1978 as I was in Tooting then.

Hi Graham
We did have snow lying in March 2013 up here in Hampstead (mainly towards the end of the month) but nothing lay in central London

I think Graham is right. It was the Thursday because, thinking about it, we must have sung the Passion on Good Friday
I wonder whether there were any accumulations in central London though (we had about 2-3 inches in Elstree south herts)

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I think Graham is right. It was the Thursday because, thinking about
it, we must have sung the Passion on Good Friday
I wonder whether there were any accumulations in central London though
(we had about 2-3 inches in Elstree south herts)

Here in Cranleigh, in 1975 I'm pretty sure it was the Good Friday,
around 8am.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

On 05/03/18 20:07, John Hall wrote:
The 1970s seems to have been a decade when there was a lot of cold and
inclement spring weather.

That was predicted by N E Davis using a hundred-year cycle. In late 69,
he said we were in for fifty years of cold springs. Started out OK in
the 70s but Global Warming soon threw a spanner in the works.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. Web-site: http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
"There is nothing more frustrating than playing hide and seek with a
deaf wolf." [Benton Fraser]
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We did have snow lying in March 2013 up here in Hampstead (mainly towards
the end of the month) but nothing lay in central London
That surprises me, I just assumed it was widespread snow from around the
22nd.
It was our equal coldest March on record with 1960, it had a mean temp of
1.8c
The first 8 days were quite mild we didn't get any snow until late on the
9th. From the 9th to the 31st there was 20 snow falling and 14 snow lying
days, the most ever for March here (1960-2018).


Graham