Winter 2024/25 - Cold or Mild? Rain or Snow?

Hagar said:
We had storms but they weren't called Betty or Charlie or Flo, Ignatio, Henri or Juan. Some years we froze, some we shared baths to save water but the British have always had weather.
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I remember it being very very cold, and very very hot, and everything in between.
Single pane windows were great in the depths of winter.
 
Average daily temp here in Leeds has been below 0 for the last 4 days. Minimum recorded temperature was -5.3c - Been very cold!

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Uther said:
I remember it being very very cold, and very very hot, and everything in between.
Single pane windows were great in the depths of winter.
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I can just about remember a day or two of winter of 1947 and we had single panes of glass - did you get up close and breath on them and make a spy hole in frost on inside of window.
I was only 3 and we heard a big crash outside back door. We all looked out and weight of snow had broken the cast iron guttering on outside bog & coal shed.
I don't think they were the good old days.
 
DXP55 said:
I can just about remember a day or two of winter of 1947 and we had single panes of glass - did you get up close and breath on them and make a spy hole in frost on inside of window.
I was only 3 and we heard a big crash outside back door. We all looked out and weight of snow had broken the cast iron guttering on outside bog & coal shed.
I don't think they were the good old days.
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Outside bog and coal shed, damn that takes me back. Having to get handfulls of toilet paper and mop up the water condensation on the windows...yeah the 70s were great in summer, winter not so much!
 
Toilet paper -You was rich.
Newspaper cut into squares with hole punched in corner and a piece of string though it to put on a nail
I can still see the candle sitting on window sill we used as a heater. :)
 
UTmaniac said:
I've been in Southampton just over 33 years myself and I'd struggle to recall many spells where it snowed at all and times when it stuck around for over 24 hours are super rare from my bad memory...

Feb '18 Beast from the east?
Apr '16? Whichever Easter it was, I remember my better half walking home from work in town
Dec '12? Smaller snow spell of few days
Dec '10? One or two days
Dec '07 or '08? Horrendous black ice in the city centre where people were waling faster than cars were moving on e morning, small inclines by The Common were almost undriveable for a day

Can't recall anything from 90s.
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I have earlier memories used to snow regularly in 70's and 80's one day it was 8" or more still have the photos someplace or other. It wasn't regular or severe but you could gaurantee at least a few days to a week of snow regularly every winter then it got less and less one year it stopped laying at all later it stopped snowing entirely other than the odd flurry. It doesn't persist on the very rare occasion it does. Coldest winters were early 80's and one or two in the early 90's one I remember the windows iced up... on the inside, curtains were frozen to the window pane. Havn't seen anything like that since. Of course weather charts show consistent average mean temperature rise year on year since they 80's so no surprises there.
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Outside bog and coal shed, damn that takes me back. Having to get handfulls of toilet paper and mop up the water condensation on the windows...yeah the 70s were great in summer, winter not so much!
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When I was a kid at the start of the 80s we moved into a house which still had a coal bunker at the back and had only been out of use a year or two and likewise the outside toilet had only recently been turned into an extension of the house. Kind of weird how even then that kind of thing felt like an oddity from a previous age despite I wasn't old enough to really know any different either.

Been awhile since I've experienced winters like the first few years that I remember where it cooled down enough over long enough it felt like it had completely sapped any heat out of the bones of the house.
 
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Hagar said:
We had storms but they weren't called Betty or Charlie or Flo, Ignatio, Henri or Juan. Some years we froze, some we shared baths to save water but the British have always had weather.
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Nobody said the British never had weather :cry:

Honestly some older folk are hilarious. 'Back in my day....' reminds me of uncle Albert.
 
m4rmite said:
83ish was a decent winter in the midlands, deep snow and about-8 / -10 ish.
Plenty igloos made and it drifty quiet deep in places.
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I rode to work on my motorcycle all through that winter (Feb was the worst I think) then broke my leg on the bike a week after it had gone. :rolleyes:
 
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We ended up with around a foot and a half of snow in total and out the front was running out of places to put it when clearing the path and road. Anymore and I would have had to resort to loading the wheelbarrow and wheeling it around to the back garden. This is what happens when all your neighbours turn their gardens into parking spaces!! Coldest temp was -12.7 Degrees C on Friday night/Saturday morning but we have been well below zero for over a week both day and night. It's still below zero now and they are saying that we will be in double figures (positive) tomorrow which I can't see happening, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. When it does warm up there are going to be a lot of nervous people who live near a river because there is a hell of a lot of snow that's going to melt.
 
I think even with the warm up later today, we'll still like have snow here another couple of days on the ground, so about 2 weeks since the 31st December. Pretty much unheard of here, other than 2009-10 (snow was on the ground for about 4 months!).
 
The snow/ice is starting to thaw at last but there's still quite a lot on the ground so it'll take a few days to clear you would imagine.
 
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