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ABainbridge
07 June 2024 08:06:16
…. was when *the* Beast from the East really started to bite.

(If I’ve got the date right and done the arithmetic correctly.)

I wonder how many of us will see one like that again?
 
westv
07 June 2024 08:13:57
Wasn't there a beast in 2018?
At least it will be mild!
Retron
07 June 2024 08:29:00

Wasn't there a beast in 2018?

Originally Posted by: westv 


More like a mini beast - a deformed kitten compared to a roaring lion. It gave one very impressive day (a low of -15 here is nothing to be sneezed at), but it was woefully short: just a couple of days, really.

The 1991 event, on the other hand - "the wrong kind of snow" - was the sort of thing that left drifts in the hedgerows for weeks afterwards. And, of course, it provided many days off work! It also had the sort of -5C maxima widely across the southeast that are all but impossible to achieve these days.
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Jiries
07 June 2024 14:48:45

More like a mini beast - a deformed kitten compared to a roaring lion. It gave one very impressive day (a low of -15 here is nothing to be sneezed at), but it was woefully short: just a couple of days, really.

The 1991 event, on the other hand - "the wrong kind of snow" - was the sort of thing that left drifts in the hedgerows for weeks afterwards. And, of course, it provided many days off work! It also had the sort of -5C maxima widely across the southeast that are all but impossible to achieve these days.

Originally Posted by: Retron 



I remember so well about Feb 1991 was amazing but normal cold spell fhat UK must get in winter months occasionallyi.  On that day before the real cold attack it was -2C and -8C at night with snow whowers when i went to the garden at 5pm to check the temps which was -5C already heard a loud roaring noise started from the nearby neighbour big willow tree and in my eyes i watched the temperature plunged down to -10C within short time as I check it again after little.   Over night low was -11C to -5c next day.  

I still have both Surrey and Kent weather books and it really sad to see all this events are lost now we not getting anything out of it, most they put snow, heat and thunderstorms events plus Oct 1987 and Jan 1990 gales.  In Surrey weather book they mentioned Epsom hit -24C and 35C which both was removed by the scam METO plus they removed Tonbridge 38.1C 100.5F record in 1868 as well.
Col
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08 June 2024 11:36:14

I remember so well about Feb 1991 was amazing but normal cold spell fhat UK must get in winter months occasionallyi.  On that day before the real cold attack it was -2C and -8C at night with snow whowers when i went to the garden at 5pm to check the temps which was -5C already heard a loud roaring noise started from the nearby neighbour big willow tree and in my eyes i watched the temperature plunged down to -10C within short time as I check it again after little.   Over night low was -11C to -5c next day.  

I still have both Surrey and Kent weather books and it really sad to see all this events are lost now we not getting anything out of it, most they put snow, heat and thunderstorms events plus Oct 1987 and Jan 1990 gales.  In Surrey weather book they mentioned Epsom hit -24C and 35C which both was removed by the scam METO plus they removed Tonbridge 38.1C 100.5F record in 1868 as well.

Originally Posted by: Jiries 


I believe this was removed because of non-standard exposure.
Col
Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg
sunny coast
24 June 2024 12:51:20

More like a mini beast - a deformed kitten compared to a roaring lion. It gave one very impressive day (a low of -15 here is nothing to be sneezed at), but it was woefully short: just a couple of days, really.

The 1991 event, on the other hand - "the wrong kind of snow" - was the sort of thing that left drifts in the hedgerows for weeks afterwards. And, of course, it provided many days off work! It also had the sort of -5C maxima widely across the southeast that are all but impossible to achieve these days.

Originally Posted by: Retron 



Jan 87 was probably the best in Kent over the past century and widely in the SE  both fir exceptional low maxima such as 12 Jan and depth of snow 
Retron
24 June 2024 13:00:46

Jan 87 was probably the best in Kent over the past century and widely in the SE  both fir exceptional low maxima such as 12 Jan and depth of snow 

Originally Posted by: sunny coast 


And very few people in the whole of the SE would have enjoyed it as much as I did... I was 7 at the time, had a week off school, bread and milk delivered by helicopter, cut off with huge drifts and when the road was finally opened the drifts either side towered over the school bus. And considering the bus was one of these, it shows how high they were:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaxton_Supreme#/media/File:Hedingham_Omnibuses_coach_L105_Leyland_Leopard_Plaxton_BEV_105X.jpg 

Of course there was no power for a week either, but hey-ho. We at least had a gas oven (my mum was busy cooking things for our neighbours) and we bought the greenhouse paraffin heater into the living room to keep us warm. Thankfully it was a year before I really got into computing, so I didn't miss anything. Indeed, I enjoyed the long walks in the snow, the snowball fights, the icicles everywhere, playing board games and reading quietly indoors and, a rare treat indeed, listening to the radio, powered with something like 8 "D" batteries. They didn't last for very long though!

In retrospect living where I do, a half mile inland from the North Sea, in Kent, and being 7 years old was absolutely perfect. The only downside is, having experienced it, nothing will ever come close - "you can never go home", as they say, even though I still live in the same house. Anyone who's under 42 or so won't know what they missed, but of course you can't miss what you've never experienced.

Being a kid in the 80s was heaven. If only I knew what I know now, I'd have made even more of an effort to appreciate it! (My old gran, who said to enjoy it as some years it doesn't even snow at all, was of course spot on. She died in 1990, having never had to endure our modern climate.)

Bonus picture - the main roundabout at the other end of Sheppey (i.e. less snow than here, as it was a few miles inland). That sign that's mostly covered says "Leysdown B2231" - and they were several feet off the ground, of course!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/1987.jpg 
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Saint Snow
24 June 2024 13:18:52

I believe this was removed because of non-standard exposure.

Originally Posted by: Col 




Had they put the thermometer in Jiries' shed?

 

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Col
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24 June 2024 17:16:55

Had they put the thermometer in Jiries' shed?

 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 



Possibly but then wouldn't the 'illegal clouds' have compensated for it?
Col
Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
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http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg
lanky
24 June 2024 21:20:28

Jan 87 was probably the best in Kent over the past century and widely in the SE  both fir exceptional low maxima such as 12 Jan and depth of snow 

Originally Posted by: sunny coast 



I remember it well especially the extraordinarily low maxima on that day. Even in Central London where I was working at the time the temperature stayed well below freezing and there wasn't even a hint of melting even in mid afternoon.

There were huge variations in snowfall. In my neck of the woods in Richmond there was probably around 3-4 inches but just 15 miles away where I come from and where my parents were still living in Bromley, Kent my dad reckoned 12-18 inches. IIRC the showers were lined up in bands over and around the North Downs.

Here in Richmond we did much better on another occasion when the showers lined up in bands in Feb 2009 when we got about 6-8 inches.

This is the temperature map for SE England courtesy of the Met Office 1km resolution gridded data for that day. Kew Gardens weather station had a record low maximum temperature going back to 1883 of -5.8C that day

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Martin
Richmond, Surrey
Matty H
24 June 2024 22:58:48

More like a mini beast - a deformed kitten compared to a roaring lion. It gave one very impressive day (a low of -15 here is nothing to be sneezed at), but it was woefully short: just a couple of days, really.

The 1991 event, on the other hand - "the wrong kind of snow" - was the sort of thing that left drifts in the hedgerows for weeks afterwards. And, of course, it provided many days off work! It also had the sort of -5C maxima widely across the southeast that are all but impossible to achieve these days.

Originally Posted by: Retron 



Depends on your location. 2018 far surpassed 91 here. Like not even a comparison

2018 was the biggest snow event here since 1982
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