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[North-Easterly Blast]

January 1987 CET Trackometer:

1. 7.5
2. 6.7
3. 5.1
4. 4.8
5. 5.0
6. 4.9
7. 4.3
8. 3.6
9. 3.0
10. 2.7
11. 2.0
12. 1.2
13. 0.6
14. 0.3
15. 0.1
16. 0.1
17. 0.0
18. -0.1
19. -0.1
20. -0.1
21. 0.1
22. 0.3
23. 0.5
24. 0.6
25. 0.8
26. 0.9
27. 0.9
28. 1.0
29. 1.0
30. 0.9
31. 0.8 (0.81*C)

[sundog]

I know that this is an old thread,but i came across this image the other day on an irish weather site. Maybe its been posted before on nw at some stage but i thought id post it anyway. It was taken on Monday the 12th of Jan 1987. On the image we can see the snow showers affecting the east of Britan and also the east of Ireland. After that the rest as they say was history

[Bad2thebone79]

Does anyone have any British weather forecasts for 1987? (like from BBC weather)

[cheeky_monkey]

yeah there are a few floating around on you tube

[Solar Sausage]

Bad2thebone79, on 15 Jul 2009, 09:31 PM, said:

Does anyone have any British weather forecasts for 1987? (like from BBC weather)

Aye. 'Getting much colder'...

Are you a Destroyers fan btw?

[Bad2thebone79]

Yep indeed I am...

They're Thoroughly good

Edited by Bad2thebone79, 20 July 2009 - 22:12 .

[Geordiesnow]

I would love to experience cold and snowy weather like 63,1987,1991 etc but it seems like we are a long way off from getting those set ups again. Who knows this winter might just deliver a cold/snowy spell that we all remember for years to come.

[snowlover2009]

just been on the net to look up the january 87 snow event and came across this. amazing is all i can say. this link looks like something you would get from america. http://212.58.50.37/...rticle_id=56417

the last couple of years are the coldest winters i have experienced, while the snow was the best i have experienced, im still waiting for snow like 87, and from before then. i dont get how the winter like last year was so cold for many decades, yet we didnt get drifts of up to 10 feet etc. i know many high ground parts did well with drifts, but nothing notable here at least. although saying that there was little atlantic to blow the snow around, but yet looking at the 13th jan 1987, there was hardly any tightly packed isobars and compare it to something like 5th january 2010 the isobars were not tight yet 1987 managed to produce such massive drifts.

Edited by snowlover2009, 13 September 2010 - 00:13 .

[Tucco]

snowlover2009, on 13 September 2010 - 00:13 , said:

just been on the net to look up the january 87 snow event and came across this. amazing is all i can say. this link looks like something you would get from america. http://212.58.50.37/...rticle_id=56417

the last couple of years are the coldest winters i have experienced, while the snow was the best i have experienced, im still waiting for snow like 87, and from before then. i dont get how the winter like last year was so cold for many decades, yet we didnt get drifts of up to 10 feet etc. i know many high ground parts did well with drifts, but nothing notable here at least. although saying that there was little atlantic to blow the snow around, but yet looking at the 13th jan 1987, there was hardly any tightly packed isobars and compare it to something like 5th january 2010 the isobars were not tight yet 1987 managed to produce such massive drifts.

Blizzards/Heavy snow with severe drifting was lacking last winter in England and Wales. Highest wind speed Ive found for the wintry spell in Jan 1987 was 73mph at Warcop Range in Cumbria.

Mark

Edited by Tucco, 13 September 2010 - 07:22 .

[stewfox]

Tucco, on 13 September 2010 - 07:21 , said:

Blizzards/Heavy snow with severe drifting was lacking last winter in England and Wales. Highest wind speed Ive found for the wintry spell in Jan 1987 was 73mph at Warcop Range in Cumbria.

Mark

When I was young lad we use to had to get to school in 20ft snow drifts, it was so cold teacher tea froze before he could drink it, by March the seas were frozen solid.

In fact I saw more snow in 24hrs in Jan 2010 then I did in 79,81,86,87 etc

Jan 87 was at Portmouth Poly had my 6 jumpers on and was fine

We should get away from this ‘when I was a young lad etc’

[johnholmes]

Yes central and Eastern England got far more than some areas in the west, especially parts of Wales. Anglesey had barely any snow but was very cold. I've written before about a train journey from Anglesey to London and Paddington station around mid day having, I think, 3 trains actually moving and by 3pm none!

[Thundery wintry showers]

Tucco, on 13 September 2010 - 07:21 , said:

Blizzards/Heavy snow with severe drifting was lacking last winter in England and Wales. Highest wind speed Ive found for the wintry spell in Jan 1987 was 73mph at Warcop Range in Cumbria.

Mark

Indeed. I think the absence of a pronounced easterly spell lasting longer than 36 hours, or "mild Atlantic lows vs cold continental high" battlegrounds, was the main reason for this. Other than 17th/18th December the convective snowfalls almost invariably came from the north, while frontal snowfalls were associated with a west-based negative NAO and a battleground between the mild Atlantic air and polar air, and not much of a pressure gradient.

The easterly of the 11th-14th January 1987 was arguably the coldest of the 20th century, and occurred as part of an otherwise unremarkable winter quarter, so it is easy to see why the event sticks out in the memory for many people.

[cheeky_monkey]

stewfox, on 13 September 2010 - 13:26 , said:

When I was young lad we use to had to get to school in 20ft snow drifts, it was so cold teacher tea froze before he could drink it, by March the seas were frozen solid.

In fact I saw more snow in 24hrs in Jan 2010 then I did in 79,81,86,87 etc

all depends on where you were located..i definetly saw alot more snow in 78,79,81,86,87 & 91 than January 2010

[Stargazer]

Remember it well - was living in Southampton, which is usually notably snow-free, and we had lying snow for several days. January 12 was Southampton's coldest day and night of the 20th century (-5.1/-10). The mean temperature for the month was 1.9, consistent with Southampton's long-term average temperature of around 1 deg C above CET - in my time there (1982-2002) only Febuary 1986 (0.4) and January 1985 (1.6) were colder [source: Met Office web site].