Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

More overnight snow here and a bitter, biting, driving wind. Easter looks like turning out to be more like Christmas than Christmas was!

Can any of our more senior members recall anything like this so late in the year? My sister was born on March 23 1958 and that also was a bitterly cold, snowy day but I was only 3 at the time and can't remember much of it and certainly cannot recall anything like this at this time of year since.

It is an oft-repeated story that is was snowing on my grandparents' wedding day, that was 18 April 1933 in W Yorks. Make what you will of that...

[Petrushka]

It is an oft-repeated story that is was snowing on my grandparents' wedding day, that was 18 April 1933 in W Yorks. Make what you will of that...

Well, we can perhaps find some consolation in that the summer of 1933 was a real scorcher.

[Serial_Apologist]

More overnight snow here and a bitter, biting, driving wind. Easter looks like turning out to be more like Christmas than Christmas was!

Can any of our more senior members recall anything like this so late in the year? My sister was born on March 23 1958 and that also was a bitterly cold, snowy day but I was only 3 at the time and can't remember much of it and certainly cannot recall anything like this at this time of year since.

I remember reading many years ago that there had been more white easters than christmases in this lovely land of ours. This is not so surprising when one considers that it is usually around christmastime that weather patterns shift to form the regimes that will likely follow until the start of March, in whatever it was we used to call a "normal year". Mild south-westerly winds are often around up to that point, and Siberia - which is where our coldest weather comes from - is not yet at its coldest. In addition, our surrounding seas are at their coldest at the beginning of March.

[BBMmk2]

Has been known to snow in June!!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

winter having a second bite with snow etc this late is quite common in these parts .... never expect winter to be finished causing misery until well into April ...

[Serial_Apologist]

winter having a second bite with snow etc this late is quite common in these parts .... never expect winter to be finished causing misery until well into April ...

That said it is unprecedented in my experience for daytime temperatures this late in March to stay below freezing - especially as far south as London.

[salymap]

That said it is unprecedented in my experience for daytime temperatures this late in March to stay below freezing - especially as far south as London.

Just enough to cover the ground here and bitterly cold, naturally. The icing on the cake is computer has yet another gremlin and is running very slowly.

I keep thinking of that young man of 27 who apparently went out for a drink, walked home but didn't make it.

It's a sad old world. bestio

[Serial_Apologist]

The icing on the cake is computer has yet another gremlin and is running very slowly.

Mine too saly - I guess a lot of people aren't venturing out today.

[mercia]

it's getting a bit serious for these cut-off villages isn't it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-21918390

[eighthobstruction]

Mercias linked villages are only 15 miles from me....must be wind and drifting up higher, + the openness of the terrain....bleak area at best of times....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mercias linked villages are only 15 miles from me....must be wind and drifting up higher, + the openness of the terrain....bleak area at best of times....

Indeed; Wycoller is the setting for Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre - proper wuthering it is!

http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/places/wycoller.asp

[DracoM]

Wind oop north ramping up for a big one, BUT we do also have a tiny bit of MOON!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Today's Country File was in Anna's part of the world, if I've got that right locationwise, looking at stars. Couldn't have gone to a better place, but unfortunately the stars weren't coming out!

[salymap]

Today's Country File was in Anna's part of the world, if I've got that right locationwise, looking at stars. Couldn't have gone to a better place, but unfortunately the stars weren't coming out!

Thanks S-A and morning. I recorded it and look forward to seeing it later - except the five day forecast, which I know already

[BBMmk2]

Yes, rather lovely part Anna lives! lucky, apart from the weather at time, it seems!

Yes salymap, the five day forecast does look rather bad! Brr! As it is today!!