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  • Location: Crewe
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, dry spells, intense heatwaves/frosts, heavy snowfall
  • Location: Crewe
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1890-1891 is remarkable to me for it's exceptionally cold December and potent January as well as it's remarkably early start and late finish, from severely cold air beginning in late November to a shocking late snowfall on the 17th of May 1891, I was wondering in mind. If you used the classification of the first and last notable snowfall to define "winter" , which winter's would have some credit as being the "longest" regardless of the weather in between the cold snaps

1878-1879 is also a top candidate for this title in my opinion with such a shocking cold November leading right through to into late March, with some exceptionally low maxima being recorded around the 25th, actually while looking for the data of 1879, I had noticed that many of these March maximums were in the top 10 coldest March maximums of all time, much more exceptional given how late into the month they had occurred!

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Posted
  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
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In my lifetime, 1962/3 has to be the 'longest' winter and Brazell (London Weather stats) reported differences from mean average (F) of -1.3 (Nov), - 4.6 (Dec), -9.8 (Jan) and -7.4 (Feb). I don't have the comparable stats for 1978/9, but although that winter did not really start until the last week of December 1978, it then went on until the start of May 1979 where I was in Surrey, thus the long winter of discontent.

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  • Location: Bacup Lancashire, 1000ft up in the South Pennines
  • Weather Preferences: Summer heat and winter cold, and a bit of snow when on offer
  • Location: Bacup Lancashire, 1000ft up in the South Pennines
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 A Face like Thunder

not sure when our last snow of 78-79 winter fell here but we had a short cold and snowy spell right at the end of November before it turned mild again until NYE.

The majority of the next three months was snowy though so even without a pre Christmas start and a finish well into spring it was probably the “longest winter” I have ever seen.

 

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Posted
  • Location: halifax 125m
  • Weather Preferences: extremes the unusual and interesting facts
  • Location: halifax 125m
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Another measure of longevity is number of airfrosts in the extended winter,October to May.Here is a list from my local met office for the worst since 1900 .

2009/2010   57 airfrost

1939/1940 63

1985/1986  65

1955/1956  65

1967/1968  66

1969/1970  69

2012/2013  70

1968/1969  71

1941/1942  73

1946/1947  77

1962/1963  84

1978/1979  86

1916/1917  93

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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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Isn't the slightly ironic answer supposed to be 1974/75, in the sense that there was snow in October in some northern/upland areas and then more snow in March/April, some of which was lowland and southern - and then of course there was the June snow, admittedly not general.  Ironic of course because Dec/Jan were absurdly and ridiculously mild.

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Posted
  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
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 hillbilly I'm not surprised to see 1916/17 at the top of that list. Every month from December to April was significantly below average.

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  • Location: Crewe
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, dry spells, intense heatwaves/frosts, heavy snowfall
  • Location: Crewe
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 hillbilly Incredibly useful information, I forgot to mention it but 1916~17 has to be one of my favourite extended winters for the equal though often unexceptional cold spread across Dec-Feb that basically ensured a very constant chill rather than concentrated in severe yet isolated spells

And then being followed by such an exceptionally cold April as well definitely makes for my "winter" length definition!

 Summer8906 Omg you are right 😅, I forgot to add that the winter should be below a certain temperature for the longest winter title to count

Incredibly ironic that one of the dullest and warmest winters on record is technically the longest 

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Posted
  • Location: Crewe
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, dry spells, intense heatwaves/frosts, heavy snowfall
  • Location: Crewe
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 iand61 1979 is definitely a weird winter, especially with such a sharp March cold snap! I can imagine especially with how significantly cold winter was, it must have really felt like it was dragging by the end

It's nice to hear a personal experience on a more local level as only having numbers and charts never gives the full story!

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  • Location: Crewe
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, dry spells, intense heatwaves/frosts, heavy snowfall
  • Location: Crewe
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 A Face like Thunder Honestly I completely overlooked the fact that 1979 also had a remarkably late end especially with the sudden snowfalls of early May! some shockingly low temperatures associated with them!

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