Winter 1829-30

[Weather-history]

Winter 1829-30 was severe with a CET of 1.1C

Dec 1829: 1.4C

Jan 1830: -0.2C

Feb 1830: 2.2C

21st December 1829 - 6th Feb 1830 CET: -1.1C

Temps in London (max,min in F)

December

1 45,38

2 43,39

3 44,40

4 45,40

5 46,40

6 40,21

7 33,28

8 35,31

9 35,32

10 35,25

11 37,33

12 43,35

13 47,30

14 37,27

15 40,30

16 41,32

17 36,28

18 38,30

19 37,29

20 32,22

21 33,23

22 35,28

23 30,24

24 30,26

25 31,26

26 32,22

27 31,16

28 30,20

29 28,24

30 30,28

31 32,28

January

1 36,29

2 36,30

3 37,32

4 37,33

5 41,24

6 40,29

7 35,30

8 43,30

9 39,29

10 36,30

11 36,29

12 33,27

13 32,22

14 31,27

15 37,27

16 31,17

17 30,11

18 21,13

19 34,11

20 37,28

21 38,30

22 36,30

23 36,32

24 41,29

25 37,31

26 36,33

27 37,33

28 36,33

29 37,26

30 38,20

31 26,15

February

1 29,18

2 23,17

3 26,18

4 23,14

5 28,8

6 40,12

7 45,35

8 48,43

9 46,31

10 47,28

11 44,30

12 43,27

13 40,28

14 36,30

15 39,30

16 38,28

17 34,28

18 47,28

19 45,23

20 43,28

21 45,27

22 48,31

23 52,38

24 54,46

25 57,37

26 48,42

27 55,45

28 54,42

Weather

December

19th: Cloudy, a little snow in the morning

20th: Ground covered with snow

21st: Very snowy day

22nd: Snowy,slight thaw about noon

23rd: Some snow

24th/25th: Snowy

28th: Snowy/bleak

29th: Snowy evening

January

1st-3rd: Cloudy

4th: Small rain

8th: Snowy morning

9th: Rainy

11th: Snowy night

12th: Snowy, 3 inches

13th: Snowy

14th: Snow

15th: Snowy, a gentle thaw pm

16th: Icy

19th: Hoar frost, rime. Heavy snow at night, 5 inches and drifting.

20th: Very gentle thaw with rain, freeze again evening

21st: A gentle thaw than frost

22nd: Rain,sleet,snow. Frost at night

23rd: Snowy am, a very gradual thaw

26th: Snowy

27th: Rainy, some sleet

28th: Drizzly; some snow at night

29th: Snow at night

30th: 2 inches of snow;rain pm.

31st: Snowy

February

1st: Snow

2nd: Heavy snow am

3rd: Fine, a little snow

5/6th: Snowy

7th: Thaw

8th: Rainy night

11th: White frost

18th: Heavy snow shower at 9am

19th: Some snow early

Some other reports

Severe cold in Madrid

10F on the 15th January in Paris as a minimum

River Arno in Italy filled with floating ice; at Bologna, river frozen over

[Fozfoster]

If that happened now i think the uk would shut down.

[Weather-history]

Some more data

Wind blew from E on 8 days

SE 7 days

S 1 day

SW 8 days

W 9 days

NW 31 days

N 8 days

NE 25 days

Var. 3 days

Quite a lot of days where the winds blew from the NE

[Optimus Prime]

If that happened now i think the uk would shut down.

People that say about every cold winter. No the UK wouldn't shut down. After the initial snow the streets would be cleared and we'd be back to normal. Like February in London.

[Fozfoster]

People that say about every cold winter. No the UK wouldn't shut down. After the initial snow the streets would be cleared and we'd be back to normal. Like February in London.

Maybe oneday we will get the chance to find out.