Not Snowed Club 2011-2012

[TonyH]

Although it has snowed a few times it has never settled here this winter. It would be very unusual to have a whole winter period of no lying snow here.

[Dorsetbred]

_{Time to take my leave, I'm afraid, bit of a poor show but a show non the less.}

_{Farewell until this time next year.}

[MP-R]

3 snow events here and nothing has come of them (unless you count about a cm for a few hours). Even today has produced nothing despite brilliant-looking forecasts from the BBC and NAE.

[davacr123]

0 snow event's here not one flake all winter oh well onto next winter it is then

[Carl46Wrexham]

Well and truly in the club. This winter for my neck of the woods is right down there with the absolute worst. No lying snow at all. Perhaps an hour of falling slushy trash on ONE day in December. Ugh! If I could kick this pathetic apology for a winter out on its sorry backside right now I'd do it.

[fenland ice]

Lovely views here in the Wisbech area this morning, around an inch and half of fresh snow covering up all the melted bits from the 6-7 inches received saturday night, been a good two weeks of some hard frosts and snow, after missing out on the snow last winter really happy with this especially after a mild first half to the winter.

[ZONE 51]

0 snow event's here not one flake all winter oh well onto next winter it is then

Well and truly in the club. This winter for my neck of the woods is right down there with the absolute worst. No lying snow at all. Perhaps an hour of falling slushy trash on ONE day in December. Ugh! If I could kick this pathetic apology for a winter out on its sorry backside right now I'd do it.

There is still some chances on the horizon, and also it has been quite common to get snow even in the SE during March, i remember reading about easterly's a few years back and that there is actually a higher risk of getting one during March then other months of winter and spring! and it has been recorded that snowfall had occured in April in this area to! (although along time ago, il look it up and post it if i find the info)

Edited February 11, 2012 by ElectricSnowStorm

[ZONE 51]

Found something! this is interesting reading...

- Astrometeorology UK -

A Collection of Weather Events and Charts for the British Isles

Weather categories with Number of events.

Drought ...001-005

Intense Rainfall ...006-085

Thunderstorms ...086-268

Heavy Snow (Blizzards) ...269-330 (see list below)

Hailstorms ...331-393

Gales ...394-430

Tornadoes ...431-489

Fog ...490-495

Miscellaneous ...496-503

HEAVY SNOW (BLIZZARDS)

269) 1806 12th November: A heavy snowfall in Brighton. (Sussex)

270) 1836 29th October: An extraordinary early snowfall. Cobham. (Surrey)

271) 1854 4th January: "A prodigious snowfall" (Essex)

272) 1881 18th January: "blizzard of the century" (WBS)

Chart 024 ***Sunrise chart***

273) 1882 4th-8th December: "The Border Blizzard". (WB)

274) 1885 22nd March: A spring snowstorm. (Hampshire)

275) 1886 28th December: Heavy snow in Norfolk, damage to telephone wires. (Norfolk)

276) 1886 20th January: A violent snowstorm (night) (Hampshire)

277) 1891 9th March: Fierce snowstorm (Essex and Hampshire)

278) 1892 21st October: Norfolk, heavy fall of snow. (Norfolk)

279) 1898 21st February: Snowstorm nine inches. Bournemouth area. (Hampshire)

280) 1900 13th - 14th February: A blizzard drifts to a great depth. (Hampshire)

281) 1904 1st March: Six inches of snow at Dover. (Kent)

282) 1908 24th April: A foot of snow northern part of Essex. (Essex)

283) 1908 25th April: Snow began to fall at 4 am. and continued for 18 hours. (Hampshire)

284) 1908 29th December: Deep powdery snow buried Hampshire. (Hampshire)

285) 1909 3rd March: 10 inches of snow at Epsom. (Surrey)

286) 1918 17th Jauary: Reading, half foot of snow fell in five hours. (Berks)

287) 1919 27th April: One of the latest snowstorms on record. Danbury eight inches.(Essex)

288) 1927 25th - 26th December: Snowstorm Christmas night. Southern England. (WBS)

Chart 025***Sunrise chart***

289) 1931 9th March: Heavy snowfall.(Essex)

290) 1933 23rd - 26th February: Harrogate, 75 cm (30 in) fell in three days. (WB)

291) 1937 6th March: Blizzard. (Hampshire)

292) 1940 16th January: Heavy snowstorm continued for two days.(Essex)

293) 1940 26th January: Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire received 30 and 60 cm of snow. (WB)

294) 1943 8th May: Thick snow to Scotland and northern England. (WB)

295) 1944 26th - 27th February: Mansfield, Belper and Nottinghan, 30 cm of snow. (WB)

296) 1948 20th - 22nd February: Snowstorms gave nine inches of snow. (Essex)

297) 1950 25th April: 15 inches fell. At Shanklin heaviest fall since 1908. (Hampshire)

298) 1952 29th March: Fierce snowstorm. (Essex)

299) 1955 19th February: Wellingham, 19 inches depth. (Norfolk)

300) 1963 26th December: Heavy snow, afternoon. (Essex)

301) 1963 29th December: Blizzard raged in southern counties. (WBS)

Chart 026***Sunrise chart***

302) 1969 7th February: Blizzard, evening. (Essex)

303) 1970 25th December: Chislehurst and Bromley 8'' of snow. (Kent)

304) 1970 12th February and 4th March: Snowstorms. (Essex - Kent)

305) 1977 14th January: Norwich, snowstorm. (Norfolk)

306) 1978 27th - 29th January: "The Highland Blizzard". (WB)

307) 1978 18th February: Blizzard in Devon and Somerset. (WB)

Chart 027***Sunrise chart***

308) 1983 9th - 10th February Dover: 14 inches of snow. (Kent)

309) 1987 18th - 19th March: Unexpected snowfall. Southhampton and IOW (Hampshire)

310) 1996 5th February: Heaviest snowfall in W. Cumbria since at least 1947. (COL)

Disruptive snowstorms and blizzards (CBI)

Date..........................Area worst affected....................Maximum level snow depths

311) 18 - 20 Jan. 1881... Devon, Dorset, Hants, IOW... 120 cm

312) 04 - 08 Dec. 1882... N. England, S. Cornwall ... 80 - 100 cm

313) 09 - 13 Mar. 1891... Devon, Cornwall, S. Wales... 125 - 150 cm

314) 29 Mar. 1901... N. England, N. Wales ... 100 cm

315) 01 - 10 Mar. 1909... SE England ... 50 - 70 cm

316) 11 - 13 Jan. 1913... N. England, S. Scotland ... 70 cm

317) 01 Apr. 1917... Ireland ... 100 - 120 cm

318) 23 - 26 Feb. 1933... Much of England, Wales ... 70 - 80 cm

319) 27 - 30 Jan. 1940... Much of England, Wales ... 60 - 100 cm

320) 18 - 20 Feb. 1941... NE England, SE Scotland ... 100 - 120 cm

321) 14 - 18 Jan. 1955... N and NE Scotland ... 90 - 95 cm

322) 26 - 29 Dec. 1962... S. England ... 50 - 75 cm

323) 08 - 09 Feb. 1963... Wales, SW England ... 150 - 160 cm

324) 16 - 20 Feb. 1978... Devon, Somerset, Dorset ... 85 cm

325) 08 - 11 Dec. 1981... England and Wales ... 60 - 80 cm

326) 08 - 10 Jan . 1982... S. England and S. Wales ... 60 - 80 cm

327) 12 - 14 Jan. 1987... S. and E. England ... 50 - 60 cm

328) 07 - 09 Dec. 1990... Midlands ... 40 cm

329) 24 - 28 Dec. 1995... Highlands ... 36 cm

330) 05 - 06 Feb. 1996... Wales, W. England, SW Scotland ... 50 cm

http://www.rhegeds.f....uk/astrom3.htm

Edited February 11, 2012 by ElectricSnowStorm