Weather-history

Here's a quirk of the weather, whilst bathing in warm spring sunshine during mid-Feb 1998 in Manchester, there were snow-cover on 2 consecutive mornings during mid-April 1998. Morning of the 14th April 1998: Heavy overnight snow showers left this covering Morning of the 15th of April 1998: Heavy snow left this covering

I'm not sure if you are referring to the article that I wrote in the TWO archives but there were some scattered snowfalls during the easterly at the end of January and early February 1976. The Queen opened the NEC at Birmingham in early February 1976 during a snowfall.

Hmmm I want to clear some facts up here Krakatoa erupted in 1883 and not in 1893 as stated The "Year without Summer" was actually the summer of 1816. The July snowfalls occurred during July 1888, although the snowfalls were really restricted to hills, it is often stated that the snowfalls occurred across low levels in the south but this seems unlikely

Dark, snow falling. Blowing in the gusts

I know what you mean it woke me up.

It was mostly hail here with a little bit of snow here

Hmm 1cm is a bit generous, I would say a slight covering and even partial at that.

Tremendous hail shower has left a covering.

Can't believe how narrow that first Tacoma bridge was, only 39ft or 11.8m and that includes roadway and pavement on either side! <_< A cricket pitch is 22 yards long, wicket to wicket, meaning the bridge was justover half a cricket pitch in length!!! :o :o

Here's some film footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in Washington state, USA. Nicknamed "Galloping Gertie", it was a spectacular engineering failure. On the 7th of November 1940, winds of 42mph, sent the main span into torsional oscillations which increased in amplitude until the main span collapsed. The main bridge span exhibitied great flexibility in the 4 months it was opened to traffic before the collapse and this what gained its nickname "Galloping Gertie". The bridge collapse marked a turning point in engineering and aerodynamics that were not understood at the time. http://physics.kenyon.edu/coolphys/Frankli...ted/tacoma.html

It really coming down now, everything is going white

Snowing in Irlam and sticking as well

I believe so.

I was only 2 at the time, but my parents remember this storm well. We had just moved to Perth in West Australia and they were thinking of moving to Darwin. Thankfully they didn't go. This was a brute of a storm and caused terrible loss of life and damage. A huge relief operation was launched and there was an appeal for funds to help the people of Darwin of which many Austalians gave generously.

rain/hail/sleet shower with a crash of thunder in west Manchester

5.1C at Salford, dp of 3.9C Steady rain

I remember it snowing from clear skies during the winters of 1985-86 and 1986-87 from Manchester During February 1986, it snowed from a clear sky for about 40 minutes and they were reasonably sized flakes and yet there were clear blue skies around!