cheeky_monkey

For very dry winters..1991-1992 and 2005-2006 stick out for me...75/76 I think was also pretty dry..1991 had the very cold anticyclonic spell of mid December with some very cold nights below -10c which is very rare without snow cover and very cold days..,many failed to get above freezing...anyone remember this spell?

Trust me by the end of Dec you would be sick of this and longing for spring!

I don't think Feb 1986 is a lost forgotten cold month..not by those who were around to remember it..i think away from the east it wasn't particularly snowy and day to day there wasn't any bitterly cold spells..it was consistently cold and dull from memory.

Good winters if you like cold and snow in my lifetime I have experienced are as follows: 77/78 back end of winter esp Feb was cold and snowy...great time to live in SW England worst blizzard in 100 years! 78/79 nothing more to be said here one of the holy grail winters of the 20th C 85/86 sub zero Feb cet 90/91 early snow in Dec followed by a cold snowy first 2 weeks of Feb..decent and finally 2010/2011 in Edmonton Canada..imagine the coldest winters of 1684 and 1740 and times that by 10..snoweist winter there for over 40 years. personally in mot a huge fan of 86/87 or 95/96 or 2008/9 for that matter.

Agreed I have just had to wade through 2 pages of waffle about posters reminiscing about the odd flake here and there sometime ago to get to anything relevant about the upcoming winter I had to check the title to make sure I was in the right thread.

lIke saying if Alan Shearer says Chelsea will win the title it will happen...doesn't mean its anymore valid than me saying it will be Man City because he is a professional...and of course weather is far more random than the PL

everybody calls it boring..but 2015 has been a very uniform year so far which in itself is very unusual..apart from the odd day here and there it has not been either hot, cold, wet or stormy...seems we have been in gentle westerly drift all year long up until now.

very symmetrical synoptics between the eastern pacific and eastern atlantic..very similar to last 2 weeks of November 2010

that's all well and good but for example the values for 1994-95 come in as Dec = 6.4c Jan = 4.8c Feb = 6.5 not sure how you could class this as a cold winter??

They should change the clocks as they do in Canada..1st Sunday in November they go back and 1st Sunday in March they go forward works well.

i would take a slight issue to your classification of winters in this spreadsheet..according to two classification of winter CET values none of the winters with a strong el nino for example came in below average and 94-95 which you have as cold and snowy is classed as very mild and I remember as being particularly wet http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoother/twocontent.aspx?type=libgen&id=1499&title=300+years+of+winter+CET+(Part+Two)

Exactly I do not understand why it would be so fascinating to sit in a forum discussing snow thousands of miles away when it chucking it down with rain outside your door..lets be honest somewhere in the world on every day it will be snowing..are people that desperate for snow???

exactly..this also true for Canada..chaos ensue when snow first strikes for a few days then it becomes the norm for the rest of winter.

who does cope well?

Different kind of snow...travelling in dry powder snow aka Feb 1991 is much easier and less hazardous than wet snow that quickly freezes aka Jan 2004

im not sure this country is any more useless than any others TBH..as for moaning if this forum is anything to go by every kind of conceivable weather is subject to rants and moans constantly.

winters tyres shed their tread at a rapid rate in temps above 7c..having said that UK winter tyres may be the equivalent of all season tyres you get in Canada..in Canada winter tyres are made from a different rubber compound that does not become rigid and hard in sub zero temperatures but doesn't react well to warmer weather

True winter tyers are only suppose to be used when the temperature is lower than 7c..above those temperatures they are potentially dangerous to use on a regular basis.

somebody posted snow is what we all want...well au contraire..id like no snow..dry and mild would be lovely thanks,,anyway looks like im heading back to Calgary in January..so will back to those cold winters again

i tried pointing this out last year and when I lived in North America...many areas of the US and Canada have had some very warm winters recently(some record breaking ) including the last 2 but this never gets mentioned and is swept under the carpet or lost in the hype of areas which were cold and very snowy..some posters were gleefully trumpeting America had had one of its coldest winters on record..when in fact in reality it was one county in new Hampshire or something like that...anyway I doubt there will be any record breaking cold in North America this winter. The continent is much more influenced by ElNino than we are...above average and relatively dry for the northern half of the USA and Canada is my call for this winter.

February 28

Might as well jump back into this thread now it looks likely im moving back to Calgary...anyway slightly off topic but does anyone know what happened to Canadiancoops? Haven't seen any posts from him since I returned to the UK some 16months ago

do you think you could make the type font any smaller??..anyway didn't Canadian coops live in Canmore?..its not far from Calgary

its a nice sentiment but you never have... it fact it gets worse year on year

yep looking forward to some lovely autumn days and cool crisp nights..not looking forward to all the winter trolls who are now stirring from their spring summer hibernation and are joyously announcing their return like the second coming