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KevBrads1
23 November 2014 09:42:09

The criteria is not the quality of the weather in that year but whether it has made an impact on the memory.

For me, 2002 was the most forgettable year weatherwise that I lived through. I can recall hardly anything in that year that has stuck in the memory.

This year is starting to climb up the forgettable weatherwise list at least at the local level. Hardly any snow, frost, ice, sleet, hail, thunder and fog and we are closing in on the halfway point of this year. It has been a combination of rain, dry, sunny, cloudy and mild largely. Spring for me was boring, zero variety, the winter towards the end was tedious. National rainfall totals were outstanding but locally nothing particularly special.

Have to see what the rest of the year brings but it is on a par with 2002 thus far.





Originally Posted by: KevBrads1 


An update on this.


Nothing has changed! The summer bar August has been decent. September was decent.


Although it has been mild, it has been consistent rather than notable maxima apart from Halloween, locally. 


Thunder wise has been poor, one rumble of thunder since early August.


Lack of frosts has been stark, it comes to something when Manchester recorded a lower maximum yesterday in 1993 than minimum for this year up to today.


A real lack of variety, the data may indicate outstandingness nationally,  but locally it has been tedious. 


This what sums up 2014 for me: dry, wet, cloudy, sunny, mild or a combination of.


MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
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picturesareme
23 November 2014 12:24:57
2003 for it's heat.

2005 for shear number of intense and often violent thunderstorms that year brought us.

Over night 30th November and 1st December 2010 --- it's not often snow falls in Portsmouth, it's even rarer the snow amounting to much, rare also of it being powdery... And exceptionally rare it last longer then 24 hours. -- Well back in 2010 that all happened with an extra bonus of a daytime hight of just -3C (also a rare thing).
picturesareme
23 November 2014 12:29:00
Oops I misread the name of the thread lol, thought it was most memorable
DEW
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24 November 2014 20:57:30


A real lack of variety, the data may indicate outstandingness nationally,  but locally it has been tedious. 


This what sums up 2014 for me: dry, wet, cloudy, sunny, mild or a combination of.


Originally Posted by: KevBrads1 


I think that you are being too parochial. Granted that Manchester may have been insulated from bad weather in 2014, but surely the weather headlines from down South had an impact on your memory? Somerset Levels under water with Muchelney cut off for weeks? Cornwall cut off from Britain by rail for two months? 9m-high waves drenching that pub at the end of the Chesil Beach? 


 


And if I'm allowed to be parochial in turn, two local trunk roads just over the border in Hampshire were closed for six weeks because of flooding by groundwater. Unprecedented and certainly memorable!


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KevBrads1
25 November 2014 09:59:19


 


I think that you are being too parochial. Granted that Manchester may have been insulated from bad weather in 2014, but surely the weather headlines from down South had an impact on your memory? Somerset Levels under water with Muchelney cut off for weeks? Cornwall cut off from Britain by rail for two months? 9m-high waves drenching that pub at the end of the Chesil Beach? 


 


And if I'm allowed to be parochial in turn, two local trunk roads just over the border in Hampshire were closed for six weeks because of flooding by groundwater. Unprecedented and certainly memorable!


Originally Posted by: DEW 


Yes but the purpose of this thread was how memorable the weather has it been in your area over various years. Yes,  the floods will be remembered but how far do you take your point. I could argue that the Buffalo lake snow event will live in my memory but Buffalo is thousands of miles away. 


That was not the point of this thread, as I said it was just how memorable weather conditions were in your area. I name a year, you recall weather events in your area. 


Take 1990, I can recall the amazing winter gales, the early April snow, a squall line mid April, the early May heatwave, a spectacular developing thunderstorm from late June, the early August heatwave, disappointment on missing out on the December snow event.


2002, it started cold with snow on ground, late February snow, a cloudburst mid June..and I'm struggling to remember standouts from that year. 


MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
Timelapses, old weather forecasts and natural phenomena videos can be seen on this site
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