White Christmas 1938

[Weather-history]

Christmas Day 1938 was a white Christmas across many parts of the UK, indeed apart from Christmas Day 1981, it was the deepest and most widespread Christmas snow of the 20th Century. The day itself was largely dry with just the odd snow flurry as most of the UK was under the influence of a ridge from Scandinavia, the run up to Christmas was cold and snowy especially in the south with an easterly to northeasterly wind bringing frequent snow showers especially to the east. Depths of snow was widely between 15 to 30cm and this drifted in the wind.

18th-25th December: -1.1

[Weather-history]

There was another large snowfall in January on the 25th when as much as 2ft fell around the Salisbury and Berkshire Downs.

[kippure]

2 ft of snow. That would be great stuff. :unsure:

[Weather-history]

From the 21st December edition of the Times

Some photos

My favourite

[BARRY]

good informative post thanks

[summer blizzard]

Beautiful weather, and aside from the precipitation, a vagely similar setup to the one we have now.

[Weather-history]

From the 21st December edition of the Times. The previous one was the 20th not the 21st.

Some Times photos

[charlton north-downs]

Great report and photos . A couple great pictures of Biggin Hill Kent -shame it doesn't happen now as the North Downs at over 600ft can really be a winter wonderland.

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[Nick H]

Thanks Kevin, interesting as ever.

Ross can't be more than 20 miles from Malvern but seems to have recorded 50% more sunshine on the 20th Dec.