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Dry with strong winds for much of the day,easing later,max 10 deg,min 8 deg
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Rain for much of the morning becoming showery before heavier rain arrived later,windy increasing as the day went on vey windy later,mild,max 12 deg,min 4 deg
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Mainly dry with a few light showers,very windy overnight and throughout the day,max 9 deg,min 5 deg.
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A few light showers before rain arrived mid afternoon with increasing winds,very windy later ,storm isha aproaching,mild,max10 deg,min 3 deg
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A windy day with spells of light rain and drizzle,some sunny spells,max 5 deg,min 0 deg
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A few flurries of snow to start leaving a cold dry day with some sunny spells,max 3 deg,min -3 deg
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Interestingly in just a few days time we could be looking at record Maximums!
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A cold ,dry day with sunny spells,max 1 deg,min -3 deg
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A frosty night with light snow showers arriving in the morning then dry with sunny spells,max 2 deg,min -2 deg
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A dry,sunny and cold day,max 2 deg,min -2 deg
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Cloudy with some light drizzle at times,max 5 deg,min 2 deg
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3 hours ago, LetItSnow! said:
Some chilly starts to the year since the 20th century, using the C.E.T. average for January to April.
2013: 4.3C
2001: 5.1C
1996: 5.0C
1986: 3.3C
1985: 4.0C
1979: 3.3C
1970: 4.3C
1947: 3.1C
1941: 3.9C
1929: 3.7C
1919: 3.9C
1917: 2.8C
1901: 4.6C
Interesting that 1917 comes out on top... or bottom. The thing about the winter of 1916/1917 and the spring that followed is that it was often very cold but the depth of cold was split between months. I do recall someone saying that mid-January to mid-February had an average well below -1C but I'm not sure exactly where. It was a very long, arduous winter but a warm May did follow.
I didn't include 1963 in this list as March and April were fairly mild but seperately it comes out at 3.0C, highlighting how brutal January and February were.
Also to not that 1917 has the highest No of airfrosts [in my area] for the extended winter October to May inclusive
1916/17 airfrosts 93
1978/79 -86
1962/63 -84
1946/47 -77
1923/24 -76
1941/42 -73
interesting that 2012/2013 is the highest since 1979 at 70
2009/2010 -57
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18 hours ago, damianslaw said:
As I suspected easily coldest 4 month period in last 40 plus years, Jan- May 79 might rival it..if talking 50 plus years..
Late Jan to late May 96 also a cold 4 month period.
Yes you guessed right average for 1996 Jan to May inclusive is 5.25 deg with 1979 at 3.86 beating 1986 by half a degree and just taking January to April inclusive 1979 still comes out on top v 1986 at 2.05 deg and 2.27 deg respectively,both astonishing years no wonder snowdrifts remained under the walls here until late April 1986 and mid May 1979.
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Mainly cloudy,damp to start with some drizzle later,max 4 deg,min 1 deg
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18 hours ago, damianslaw said:
A forgotten winter 85-86. from last week of Dec bar a blip or two in Jan, it was very cold right through until and even through April.
I think because it was very dry, with no major snowfalls, just a lot of light snowfalls. Temp wise that 4 month period from christmas to late April probably up there as coldest relative to average of last 40 years plus.. Mid Jan to mid May 13 may have beat it. Good to have stats..
Just using Met office stats for this area Jan-April 1986 is almost a degree colder than that of 2013 average 2.8 and 3.75 respectively and even including May it is still colder at 4.4 and 5.1 deg average
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18 hours ago, damianslaw said:
1996 not mentioned or 1991, cold featured in both, 1996 only last 10 days but gave a decent fall on the 27th here from a biting easterly. 1991 was cold and frosty with some snow showers.
1995 gave a significant localised fall in parts of Yorkshire about 40cms.
We received a few inches on 29th then it rained. The 90s produced lots of snow to rain events.
I mentioned 1991 similar to 1993 and 1995,yes should have added 1996 but both 1991 and 1996 main events were in February even though it was cold with some snow in January.The January 1995 snow event was a very good one here,should have made more about it.
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A chilly day with sunny spells,max 3 deg,min -1 deg
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Where do we start,yes no introduction needed.
January 1979,the mother of all winter months,monster snow,the biggest drifts i have ever seen,severe cold.
1982 had it not been a milder start and finish it could have rivalled 1979 but the middle 2 weeks were as cold as Britain could get and monster snow.
1985 very cold,lots of snow and big drifts
1984 Mild to start with a severe destructive gale on friday 13th and a severe blizzard on the 3rd week,just how good was the 80s for snow!
1987 We didnt get the severe cold as the that in the South but it was still amazingly cold and a reasonable amount of drifting snow
1990 Burns day storm,tried to blow the house roof off and they were very heavy Yorkshire stone slates.
1991,1993 and 1995 all gave good snow events
The best in recent times were 2009,2010 and 2013,such a shame 2010 didnt deliver the wind but great for snowdepth and cold
Honarable mentions to 1977,1978,1986 and 2003
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A chilly dry day,cloudy,max 2 deg,min -1 deg
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It was very cold here in the first week of January with some snow on the 2nd,freezing nights right through.There was no snow on the 7th but a good amount of snow came on the 8thwith winds creating drifts.My motorcycle test was cancelled and we battled to get my brothers car down the farm lane from 340 metres into civilisation so we could get about.It was also very icy before becoming milder on the 9th then heavy rain arrived on the 10th leading to a fast thaw.There was some windy weather in the days following before a few colder days from the 15th then a few days of rain before the very severe main event starting with snow showers on the 23rd which brought Antarctica to these Pennine hills for 6 weeks the likes we havnt seen since.
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A chilly dry day with some sunny spells,max 5 deg,min -1 deg.
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Dry,mainly cloudy,some sunny spells,max 7 deg,min 3 deg
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There have been 9 months with a Cet less than 3 deg in the last 30 years whereas there were 5 in the 1990s,8 in the 1980s,6 in the 1970s and 9 in the 60s,50s and 1940s.
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Mainly dry some sunny spells,max 6 deg,min 4 deg
Daily weather observations - January 22nd to January 28th
in Spring Weather Discussion
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A cloudy mild day with light rain and drizzle to start and later in the day,max 10 deg,min 3 deg