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  • Location: Cambridge
  • Weather Preferences: Each season has its own merits but, since you press me, heavy snow
  • Location: Cambridge
Posted

It feels a forlorn hope for a repeat…….is it? 

Posted
  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
Posted
11 hours ago, snowuse said:

I was 6 years old on Christmas Day 1968, and my recollection is of my mother pulling back the curtains on Christmas morning and revealing a thoroughly snow covered front lawn, saying “this is how Christmas should look”. Can anyone confirm that my 6 yr old memory is correct. I lived near Cambridge even then.

I remember Christmas Day 1968 and it started with slushy snow in Surrey which quickly disappeared under blue skies. Philip Eden reported heavy snow across much of Wales, the Midlands and parts of S England, with 15-25cm in parts of Wales and the Midlands. A memorable White Christmas to round off an interesting year weather-wise.

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Posted
  • Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, cold, frost and thunderstorms
  • Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
Posted

 snowuse Won't happen this year I am sorry to say. But I remain confident that it will happen again at some point. I hope you get to enjoy it and repeat those words. Merry Christmas

Posted
  • Location: Islington, C. London.
  • Location: Islington, C. London.
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I don’t have many memories of Christmas weather that are that interesting. I seem to remember a Christmas Day when I was really young when it absolutely poured with rain, torrential thunderstorm like rain. This would have been mid 2000s ish but it’s possible that I’m mixing it up with one of the adjacent days. 

I always remembered having two white Christmasses in a row in 2009 and 2010. 2010 I’m for sure about but 2009 I’m not sure is a false memory given the synoptic IIRC showed milder air in the south. Though we were at very high elevation and did often benefit in marginal set ups. 2010 was definite though. I remember snow cover on the ground and it being quite dull. 
 

Next Christmas I remember is 2012 which I believe was a case of sunshine and heavy showers merging into longer spells of rain. The rain was torrential at times. 2013 was an incredibly stormy period. I remember the 22nd was a brief calm being a sunny and dry day before stormy conditions ravaged us on the 23rd/24th, the winds of which were so bad they cut off power to us on Christmas morning. The day itself was calmer though. I remember an impressive thunder cloud with very menacing skies in the days after Christmas. 

2017 was mild and wet. 2020 was chilly before mild and very stormy weather followed on Boxing Day. 2022 I was asleep for the entire day with the mega flu so I’ve no idea, and finally I believe 2023 was just very mild and extremely dull and cloudy. 

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Posted
  • Location: Cambridge
  • Weather Preferences: Each season has its own merits but, since you press me, heavy snow
  • Location: Cambridge
Posted

 The Real Snowman yes, resigned to that (again)! Happy Christmas to you too.

Posted
  • Location: Ponteland
  • Location: Ponteland
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Ah the Christmas period to NewYear period 1962 what a spell was upcoming, Christmas Day here was bright and cold but dry as was Boxing Day until the evening when we had some sleet, the 27th was a day of contrasts with rain turning to sleet followed by a clear cold evening, around 9 pm the snow started to fall and did of and on until New Year’s Eve. 
The front that went through on the 27 th was responsible for the enormous amount of snow that fell further south for at least 72 hours.

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Posted
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, convective precipitation, snow, thunderstorms, "episodic" months.
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
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My parents thought they recalled the white Christmas of 1968 but when I checked the historical records, as they were up in Tyneside at the time, which had a fair amount of snow just after Christmas Day 1968 but not on the day itself, it is more likely to have been 1964. Christmas Day 1964 had a northerly blast and snow showers fell and accumulated widely near the east coast of England, with a few of them getting a fair way inland, although central and western areas were dry and sunny.

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Posted
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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Ah well, christmas eve- boxing day 2024 will be quickly forgot this year, barely any weather to talk about, other than very mild, dull and dank.. 

Posted
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Continental winters & summers.
  • Location: Cleeve, North Somerset
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 damianslaw Not even 'very mild' down here. Just completely featureless and a gentle slide in temperature.

Posted
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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 MP-R Yes in the end not especially mild further south, but notably so further north especially Scotland. I'm going to start a thread dedicated to 31 Dec- 1 Jan. 

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Posted
  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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Not the worst Christmas period ever so far. Yes, very dull (last sun here was the morning of the 23rd, if you discount 3 mins of sun around 4pm on the 24th just before it set) but it hasn't been silly-mild, and it has felt at least seasonal.

Better than a screaming SW-ly and temps around the norm for late October, at least - so an improvement on the truly dire conditions we got at the end of 2021, 2022 and 2023.

I do see that normal service resumes for New Year's Eve and Day, albeit temporarily.

I guess we won't see the sun again in 2024, so it's rounding off a very dull year in typical fashion!

I'm also guessing December won't be notably mild (somewhat milder than average, but not notably so) down here, continuing the run of fairly normal months temp-wise which started in June.

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Posted
  • Location: NW LONDON
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, sleet, Snow
  • Location: NW LONDON
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i remember not having any weather for all the Christmases i can remember😟

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