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At my age "younger" is back in the 1950's and 60's. We had cold winters in those days and in Winter 1962-1963 had a really cold and snowy winter, even in London the snow was piled high. I was working in Richmond at the time and had to dig several feet of snow away from the entrance to my place of work just to get inside. It lasted from December until first week of March. Having lived through that (with no home central heating in those days) anything since has so far seemed insignificant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%931963_in_the_United_Kingdom
John | 04.12.10 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Our snow-lite decade coincides pretty much with Tony Blair's premiership. Coincidence, obviously.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.12.10 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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I've very clear memories of those 1990s heavy snows in London too - everything ground to a halt in 1991, and I was studying at a college at the foot of a very icy hill in 1995...
You should underline Dec 1 on behalf of us south of the river - I'm just on the cusp of the heavy snow/regular snow divide here in snowy SE7 (six inches at the top of the hill, just a couple at the bottom).
darryl | Homepage | 04.12.10 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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1947 my parents always told me about it.
Michael | 04.12.10 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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darryl - The list is about snow where I am (which is usually E3/Central London) so it would probably invalidate the data if, as a one-off, I included snow elsewhere.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.12.10 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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Hmm, I spent the winter of 1995/96 in Ukraine; it was a particularly severe winter there too, with snow on the ground consistently from mid-November until mid-April!
Given that, and as I spent much of the 90s in the northern half of Scotland, I had really come to appreciate the mild winters of late in and around London.
Jan 8 2003 must have been another unexpected snow day, where there a sudden flurry of intense snow from lunchtime onwards - with the result that much of the underground (the open air sections) shut down before the evening rush hour, and there were extreme traffic jams along many major roads out of London until well after midnight.
Dominic | 04.12.10 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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At the risk of sounding ancient, I remember very clearly the winter snow in 1962 / 1963, Up until that time our milk had always been delivered by Horse and Cart, ( this was in the SW19 postcode area) our friendly milkman was a man named "Percy Whifin", unfortunatly the horse could not cope with the severe snow so a new electric float was drafted in to replace him, after this time we never had our milk delivered by horse and cart again.
Fishislandskin | 04.12.10 - 11:16 a.m. | #
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This is lovely DG, brings back making snowmen in the park when school was closed in 1991...
misspiggy | 04.12.10 - 3:07 p.m. | #
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Actually, global warming is more likely to bring more of the white stuff our way as it slows down the Gulf Stream, and bringing us onto a weathery par with our latitudional cousins...
RG | 04.12.10 - 3:15 p.m. | #
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Global Warming
siddiq | Homepage | 04.12.10 - 5:08 p.m. | #
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I was born in the winter of 1962/3, and apparently got snowed in near Stonehenge on a trip from London-Cornwall where I was to be presented to family!
Now I'm living in the Rocky Mountains. Wonder if that's coincidence!
CornishCockney | 04.12.10 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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Snow is dramatic; the warmer winters were a relief in a way but I'm really glad that over the last two years bulbs haven't come up peculiarly early, in December. This seemed as if a law of nature was being rather scarily overturned!
Vivien | 04.12.10 - 8:07 p.m. | #
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Not a fan of snow, but it's thawing nicely here in SE Essex. Funnily enough, I really HAVE got corn for popping!
Vulpine | 04.12.10 - 10:58 p.m. | #
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