let it snow!

Ah February 1991, I was just old enough to enjoy and remember it. I remember being in school during the morning, being really excited because all the teachers were talking about the snow we were going to get! I kept looking out the window all morning and sure enough it started snowing about mid day. If I remember rightly it snowed here all afternoon and evening, the journey home took 2 hours as opposed to the normal 20 minutes. Great fun, mustve had about 5 inches in the end, and the school was closed the next day so we built snowmen in our back garden. I wish we could get something like that again...

Light snow here for the last five minutes. Blowing in the wind. Not much but its something! Its stopped, must've heard me!

Well my meteorlogical knowledge adds up to slightly less than nothing :o , but certainly this winter 'feels' different. Genarally average or cool with cold interludes, as opposed to the usual generally average or mild with cool/cold snaps that we've had in recent winters. Surely a good sign, and more akin to some of the mid 90's winters that i remember (too young to remember the REALLY good years )

Glad you all remember it as fondly as I do, was a fantastic spell of snow for the north of Ireland. It was the first instance for a very long time that snow settled in large quantities on the west coast of Ireland-its almost always too mild. If I remember Met Eirean were caught out slightly, they predicted 'snow showers with some accumulations' the night before!

Well we briefly had some light snow grains in nw London about 10 minutes ago, just light drizzle now :blink: Oh, and its a bit nippy!

Hi guys I was just reminising about the very cold spell over christmas and new years 2000. I remember being on holiday in the far northwest of ireland and awaking about 8am one morning (I think the 27th) december, to a fantastic sight. Although our garden was covered in clear skies with a heavy frost, there was an ominous bank of cloud to the west. This duely arrived and it started snowing onto the frozen surface at about 8:20am... ...and boy did it snow! It snowed solidly and very heavily until just after 1pm, and left us with 8 inches of level snow. We rather stupidly went for a drive and got stuck on a hill! By about 3pm the snow receded and I remember having to walk home (leaving the car at the bottom of the hill!). We had one more extremely heavy shower later that day which gave whiteout conditions and was actually pretty scary to be out in. From then on for the next few days it became cold and sunny, but the snow stayed for the best part of the week. The question I have is what gave such intense snowfall in the northwest of ireland? Surely if it was an atlantic front it would have introduced milder air? It certainly wasnt a passing shower! Also, what other memories do people have of this event? Certainly the best snow ive seen in my 21 years. Ah the memories...