November 1923: gales, cold and wintry

[Weather-history]

November 1923 was overall a particularly cold month for the UK with a CET of 3.3°C, making it one of the coldest Novembers in the last 350 years. It was a fairly wet month overall with mid month being particularly bad for parts of NW England and  Wales with flooding. Rain fell for nearly 48hrs at Portmadoc with roads up to 2 feet deep in water. 

Llyn Fawr: 90mm on 13th

On the 15th, during mid afternoon, a squall line passing over Southport gave a gust of 82mph 

 

The weather turned very cold and wintry after the mid month wet spell with snowfalls. -11.0°C was recorded at west Linton on the night of the 29th-30th November. 

Kew observatory reported that the frost from the 24th-27th November was the most prolonged experienced since November 1890

 

[damianslaw]

The synoptics for Nov 1923 odd to say the least. Greenland heights kicked the jet far far south, azores lows instead of high. An abnormal state of affairs, would be interesting to know the drivers, a Polar vortex in the dolldrums.

Edited November 3, 2023 by damianslaw