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Where were you in 2010?
I get you about 2010, but it still wasn't 3-4 inches. It just that the snow stuck for weeks due to it being 0C or sub-zero.
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I get you about 2010, but it still wasn't 3-4 inches. It just that the snow stuck for weeks due to it being 0C or sub-zero.
We definitely had 3-4 inches up here.
I had about 2 ft of lying snow just south of London in december 2010. 2 big falls and lots of smaller ones
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Depends where you are. Guildford was hit particularly bad but surrounding areas not so much.
I do recall the army having to come and clear paths to the hospital. No deliveries for a lot of the out of the way supermarkets.
I was in Old Coulsdon at the time, it was hardest hit in the area, being on a hill helped
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I can vaguely recall living in Shropshire (Tilstock, near Whitchurch) in the late 1970s, when I was ~7. Loose snow was above my waist, I had to walk outside like a saddle-sore cowboy to get around the farm, drifts were higher than adults. Apparently there was ~4" of ice to break through in the cattle water stations every morning. School was closed for something like a week outside of holidays.
No other winter has come close to that in the places I've lived over the last ~40 years (Manchester; Shropshire; Dolgellau; Wirral; Southampton). But then most of those years have been on the coast, especially the south coast, nothing like the climate I'd expect from the Yorkshire moors and into Scotland.
No other winter has come close to that in the places I've lived over the last ~40 years (Manchester; Shropshire; Dolgellau; Wirral; Southampton). But then most of those years have been on the coast, especially the south coast, nothing like the climate I'd expect from the Yorkshire moors and into Scotland.
There were relatively isolated pockets of deeper snow, especially south of London. They got all the news. Everyone else had to make do with the aforementioned two to three inches.
I think the best winter I ever had was around 2002(?) when it snowed a few inches on Boxing Day and temperatures stayed just below freezing for about a week. It was a better winter than 2010, more snow and lasted longer.
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Not sure if it was that one or the big one in the 60s but my dad has pictures of the road upto his house with the snow more than half way up the cars and drifts completely covering cars, etc. and icicles ~3 feet long from the roof - never seen anything like that in this country in my life time.
There was winters like that here in the 80s. In the really bad winter in the 60s I’ve seen photos of cars completely buried on the main road into Aberdeen and snow banks so high that they were upto the windows on the top deck of a double decker bus heading out to Alford.
My parents had 8-20 inches depending on the thaw and snow cycles.
Meteo France Arpege model (which is usually accurate for this stuff) is giving you a fairly moderate covering especially on higher ground Monday morning though doesn't look like it will last long.
EDIT: Or might be late afternoon depending where about you are in Aberdeenshire.
3c here this morning but clear skies, Lucky its sunday else there would have been a massive groan when folks saw there windshields this morning. I feel quite lucky in the sense i don't really feel the cold unless it dips way down. Its 14 in my house right now she moaned shes freezing and im wandering about in a tshirt still. Been forced to put the heating on 
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