High pressure over Scandinavia, low pressure trying to push in from the west. The result was a severe spell of wintry weather with blizzards, drifting snow and intense cold during the last week of 1908

That is a real contrast. You don't often see the Atlantic battling against such a cold pool of air so close to the UK




Here are some reports

Morriston: Snow 7.25 inches deep (26th-28th)
Alford: Snowstorm blocked the railway for 3 days (26th-28th)
Gloucester: Snow fell almost continuously (26th-29th)
Porth: Snow from 4 to 6 inches deep, with drifts up to 3 to 4ft deep in country
Whithorn: Almost continuous snow
Dolaucothy: Snow over 6 inches deep. (27th)
Torquay: Snow commenced to fall about 3.30pm on 27th and continued at intervals to 2.30pm on the 29th. 6 to 18 inches deep snow depending on elevation.
Knotty Ash: 6 inches of snow
Forfar: Great snowstorm, the average depth was 27 inches
Ystrad Mynarch: 6 inches of snow (29th)
Kirkby Lonsdale: Severe snowstorm during the night from ESE. There were drifts from 3 to 8ft deep on account of the severe gale and hard frost.
Bodnant Hall: Blizzard.
Girvan: On 28th, 4 inches of snow fell and on 29th, 5 inches.
Camden Square: 3 inches deep snow (29th)
Abinger Hall: 8 inches of snow (29th)
Maidstone: 7 inches of snow
Horsham: 8 inches of snow
Bournemouth: 6.5 inches of snow
Southampton: 7 inches of snow
Poole: 7 inches of snow
Wincanton: 6 inches of snow
St Andrews: Roads impassable and trains blocked by snow.
The 29th was a very cold day.
Burghill Court: 22F (max)
Ranmoor: 20F (max)
Camden Square: 23.7F (max)
Wallington: 23.8F (max)
Stratfieldsaye Gardens: 22F (max)
Stow-on-the-Wold: 21.0F (max)
Low minima recorded
Camden Square: 14.4F (30th)
Tenterden: 14.0F (30th)
Pitsford: 6.2F (30th)
Ross-on-Wye: 17.6F (30th)
Southport: 15.9F (30th)
Hull: 12.0F (30th)
Edinburgh: 18.7F (29th)
Liphook: -1F (30th)
Raunds: 3F (30th)
Buxton: 4F (30th)
Epsom: 4F (30th)
Bawtry: 5F (30th)

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The ultimate battleground scenario. It's basically an extreme version of todays 12z ECM.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Recm2402.html 

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tbh you don't really see air that cold period. I notice, particularly, that the -15C isotherm is well over the UK in the SE. That's more than was achived anytime in 63. 

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That was a massive temperature gradient

Presumably Gavin(HT) remembers this?

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