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Here are BBC Weather and news reports from mid December 2009 to mid January 2010. It was a period, I won't forget with heavy snowfalls, long periods of lying snow, a white Christmas and negative double digit minima and on some days, beautiful clear blue skies with a mantle of snow.
16th December 2009: The cold spell kicks inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYGfj94E0Y
Rob McElwee, love his endinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jk03RodG8Q
17th December 2009: BBC report on the preparations of dealing with the weatherhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcIbOlR_Lt4
20th December 2009: A snowy day around here, snow showers on a northwesterly airstream. Two weekly forecastshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0e2jAoD6OQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0847NZK71HM
21st December 2009: The Preston area saw an unusually heavy snowfallhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YX7X4oeG4g
22nd December 2009: Heavy snow around here that morninghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eomT22vw10Yhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMy5IkHE3Fohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG4jJ23BzYQ
BBC News report from 22nd December 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbdq5pV_ZQ
Christmas Eve 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NmtT9BGFXwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTH7GanTi8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFtZ1qKKNBY
Two Christmas Day 2009 news reportshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cp5Oep7Sm8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1p9WdfSjhwChristmas Day 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tiD859WJ4
Boxing Day 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiY2772VxG4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyaNxSMWlY
27th December 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaUeaUcnQiw
28th December 2009: How far north and how wintry the preciptation was going to be?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0tsmUZLCwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AV_XSA7Lrkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwB17QJK3gI
29th December 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFzhMGDxGAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDOUkgB7es30th December 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpsSaQy5flI
New Year's Eve 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEvYclk87okhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPvnJ9qLbw
New Year's Day 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNb9HKC_eCs
2nd January 2010: I remember that morning, a wintry mix of sleet, snow and hailhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXPxhU6KEukhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgn-ELVaAE
BBC Northwest report of 2nd January 2010 on the effect of the weather on the January saleshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2MyXRfWSE
3rd January 2010: Two weekly forecastshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeiQHpNJ58http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9S_BbIOdA
BBC News report on the gritting shortagehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ryM-FSh78
4th January 2010: Snow prospects seem to have been underestimatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgcviSt2Qg
5th January 2010: Snow chaos!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcn2Pl-VOo
Local News on the snow chaoes of 5th January 2010BBC Northwesthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxRuzivycg
Granada reportshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtP3iD_fVc
BBC Northwest weather forecast of 5th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK1lMUBLrF4
6th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNUnK_J_GUBBC News report from 7th January 2010 from Woodford on that low minimumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMRQYcBHZI
BBC Northwest News from Woodford on 7th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nku6v_RtEhw
7th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgL3h9mc4o
8th January 2010: John Hammond refers t the blocking that is bringing cold weather around parts of the northern hemispherehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda3lrH0-sg
9th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPqsfW5yEYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBbPAggbfbU
10th January 2010: Weekly forecasthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Sr9bX53ls
11th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHoGEHvMdyk
12th January 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTZy0QT9E4
Ooooooo... Will check these out. Thanks K.
Better than the following winter for me. Thanks for posting - Will check out later
Excellent work, Kevin. But I'm wondering if you are either on first name terms with the founders of Youtube or they are sending you messages pleading you to go easy on their servers!PS: This event may have got a litte lost in the mist of times when it comes to recalling it from memory but I do rememeber the amazing thundersnow event a month later on the 11th of February where heavy snow being accompanied with lightning dumped 23 cm overnight and into the morning.
Actually, just remembered that I have some photos taken on that January 2010. I'll just show the postage sized images for now, as not to clutter up this page too much.Indeed, we did get some snow on the 22nd December 2009 but I can recall that not really being a particularily memorable event and in fact we had missed out on a White Christmas . . .But winter returned as snow began to fall at my coastal location on Wednesday 6th January '10 . . .Then it got going on the 8th January with drifting over the hills.
And on Sunday 10th January '10 with strong winds encouraging more drifiting. Mind you, this was over them thar hills where the climate can be so different compared to my sea level home location only four miles away. I can recall the coastline not having really got that much snow at this point as elevation played quite a role on this occasion.
And on 15th January where a thaw was setting in over the coast line but still remained wintry over the hills and where my former hilltop based workplace was. Thought I'd use a bit of artistic licence while I was at it . . .
But the February 11th 2010 thundersnow event is what really did it for me as it was where the coast actually got hit by the snow more than the hills due to a series of Kent Clippers dumping 23 cm of snow at my home location overnght . . .The snow kicked in again on the afternoon of 10th Feb with drifting and a severe wind chill over the high ground.And at sea level the next morning . . .
The winter of 2010 was quite snowy in nature having thought about it! It then lead to a thundery Summer and of course, THAT December.
Excellent stuff Kev , I remember having Wednesday and Thursday off , we did quite well that week
21st December 2009 - Snow brought gridlock to this area that afternoon
A brief thaw around xmas was followed by some serious snowfall in the new year. The most snow I've seen here
Excellent work, Kevin. But I'm wondering if you are either on first name terms with the founders of Youtube or they are sending you messages pleading you to go easy on their servers!.
Originally Posted by: idj20
6000 Uploads?
I thought I was doing well with 719!
09/10 was a fantastic winter for consistent cold and plentiful (but not usually disruptive here) snow.
There was that one big let-down between Christmas and New Year though. I remember for a time around Christmas it really did look like we was setting up a late December pattern similar to late Dec 62 and 78, but in the end it just didn't quite come together...
Thankfully because it was Christmas week nobody noticed, but my Christmas Eve Thoughts that year wasn't my best for sure.
6000 Uploads?I thought I was doing well with 719!09/10 was a fantastic winter for consistent cold and plentiful (but not usually disruptive here) snow.There was that one big let-down between Christmas and New Year though. I remember for a time around Christmasit really did look like we wassetting up a late December pattern similar to lateDec 62 and 78, but in the end it just didn't quite come together...Thankfully because it was Christmas week nobody noticed, but my Christmas Eve Thoughts that year wasn't my best for sure.
Originally Posted by: Gavin P
Too right. The heaviest snowfall in Manchester since 1981 and that was the forecast!!?
Originally Posted by: AlvinMeister
Yes the 2-5 cms for here was well underestimated. No indication there of the cyclogenesis that took place towards the Channel. Ended up with 25cm LOL!