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  • Location: Islington, C. London.
  • Location: Islington, C. London.
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The actual onset is quite interesting. Seems as though a cold pool was building to our east in the run up to Christmas 1986, but it gets shunted away by the Atlantic. We were quite close to having a cold Christmas. Had the forums been around there may have been fears of winter being over

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We were incredibly lucky during this spell. To me I can see that it's that original cold pool that's to thank for the spell that came after. Unusually when it turned zonal the lows that passed into Europe didn't mix out the cold air like they usually did, meaning cold air sort of stagnated across Scandinavia/Russia in the closing days of 1986 and early 1987. It's thanks to that low ejected into central Europe on the 2nd that the turned the flow into the north and allowed that already stagnant cold pool to flood with even colder air out of the Artic.

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Then the same happens again and remarkably the lows don't hamper the cold pool which is seemingly increasing day by day. All it takes is that low to eject SEwards and pressure to retrogress and down comes the frigid air that had been bottling up for about 3 weeks.

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And to think it all began due to an innocuous looking low pressure system in the top right of the chart on the 10th of December.

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Knife edge stuff really. We talk about how impactful the spell was for us but I imagine Scandinavia/Russia must have absolutely shivered under that cold pool for so long. You can see that by just how cold December 1986 was up there. And those anomalies are on somewhere that's already cold by average!

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Posted
  • Location: Crawley
  • Location: Crawley
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Does anyone have a link for John Kettley's forecast on countryfile 11th January 1987 please?

Posted
  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: thunderstorms /winter storms and blizzards.
  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
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Hi  does anyone have any newspaper stories on this please or a link ?

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  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
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  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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This is the first wintry spell I can properly recall, I was 8. I remember it coincided with a weather project at school, recording the temp every morning being around -5 degrees. Also remember lots of kids off with a cold except me.

Vague memories of the reports of the severe cold. We didn't receive copious snowfalls a few inches I think. 

 

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