This a pretty decent winter month, at least around here anyway with snowfalls and a good covering.

CET: 3.2C

Forecasts got the breakdown of the cold weather wrong. John Kettley was sure that it would breakdown quickly with Atlantic making a complete break through on the Countryfile forecast. Infact although there was something of a breakdown, the cold airmass to the east came back and there were more snowfalls the following week. When he did the following Countryfile forecast, he admitted it didn't go to plan but he still got the breakdown timing wrong even though he said he was more certain. We had one of the biggest snowfalls for this area for the 1990s.

Forecasts from that month

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWbt7RniF2aqZ6S8BiQajIq9rorYUEQpJ

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Thanks Kevin, good to see this again, i'm very fond of this month espesially around 14th and 15th, it was the first decent snowfall i had seen since I started daily recordings of the weather the year before, i got my coldest daytime max of -2.5c on the 14th and then that night we had 10 cm of snow, it was proper powder snow, its probably still or equally the best snow depth i've seen down here (Poole) since then, maybe 2nd of December 2010 was about the same But not in quality. I remember that country file forcast too and with the snow predicted for the following day i then didn't allow my self to watch anymore forcasts for fear of seeing a downgrade! I think it was the depth of cold that made it special, there was no melting in the corners and everthing was locked frozen by the penetrating wind so everthing that fell settled. I went to clifftops at Boscombe on the morning of the 14th and remember being very impressed that my hair (long at the time) had frozen in the strong easterly where it was still wet from my morning shower!

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Thinking about it, the 90s did have some half decent Scandi high easterly spells such as Feb 1991, November 1993, February 1994, December 1995, January 1996, December 1996 and January 1997 but since then easterlies have largely been weak efforts, February 2005 was probably the most prolonged, February 2009 was potent but brief.

Funny how Scandi high easterly spells have in short supply in recent times.

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