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[Mr_Data]

Don't often hear this warning given of exceptionally severe winter weather. Not happened around this neck of the woods, we got a little bit of snow but it was pretty much a non event. Lot different further north though! The Countryfile forecast had the low further south with the snow but it quickly changed to further north.

Edited by Mr_Data, 06 February 2012 - 06:58 .

[yeahbabyyeah]

I miss those BBC graphics. I always felt they gave a better depiction of the weather!

As for that snow, event...i remember it well! We had a similar set up in late feb/early march 2006 too if i recall.

[trickydicky]

Got 2 days off college from that little baby. Best post 1996 snow event for West Cumbria. Due to the dry frosty period that followed, the depth of the snow, and the height it was piled up to next to the roads, the snow hung around for weeks afterwards. I seem to recall it getting pretty warm in the weeks that followed.

[NW Leeds Russ]

Remember that well.

The missus and I went to Glasgow on the train on the Friday morning from Leeds.

Had to get off at Berwick and take the bus from there to Edinburgh because the line was blocked around the borders.
I remember the snow on the side of the A1 where ploughed was massive..!

Edited by NW Leeds Russ, 06 February 2012 - 13:48 .

[damianslaw]

I remember being quite dissapointed with the event- just missing out on an exceptional fall. I was living in Stirling at the time and although we did see some heavy snow and very strong winds - the total amounts were only 2 inches, and the wind quickly wipped the snow up making many surfaces clear of the stuff. I remember thinking is it snowing or is it just the wind blowing the snow about.

Places just 10 miles away nr Falkirk saw very severe conditions with much greater amounts of snow - as the front appeared to become unstuck over Lothian. The Borders and NE Eng were very badly affected. I remember the snow stuck around well into March. I travelled to Newcastle the weekend after and remember seeing the huge drifts from a darkened train window as I went through the borders.

March 2001 delivered a further wintry cold spell mid month with raw easterly winds.

We did see four preety wintry first halves to March in the 00's in 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In the case of 2006 the cold extended to the 21st. 2010 also saw a cold though dry first half. Indeed the first half of March can and often does two faces - winter and spring. Last March was preety average and benign, I have a feeling this March will start on a much more wintry note.

[sundog]

It snowed most of the day here that day with Dublin airport closing for the first time in many years. Got a good few inches of snow that day with temps just hovering around zero. There wasnt much snowfall here after that but sunny days and frosty nights with the snow staying on the ground until around the 4th of March.

[trickydicky]

Wasn't it this spell that delivered the sub -20 temperature at Kinbrace on about 2nd March?

[Thundery wintry showers]

In Tyne and Wear the snow provided significant accumulations inland but fell as sleet near the coast. On the morning of the 28th I could see snow-fields out to the west from Cleadon but there was no lying snow at Cleadon itself. Parts of south-west Scotland reported undrifted snow of about 50cm deep- parts of Northern Ireland, the Scottish Lowlands and Northumberland were particularly heavily hit.

During the 1st/2nd March 2001, as the weather system retreated south-eastwards and Britain ended up under a slackening north-easterly flow, it was eastern coastal areas that got hit most- Cleadon had 8cm on the 2nd while about 10-11cm was reported from the outskirts of Norwich according to Philip Eden. In the areas which had snow cover it got exceptionally cold by night, hence the Scottish readings below -20C. At Cleadon I recorded one of only two sub -10C nights in a record going back to 1993 (3rd December 2010 being the other), and Durham got to -10.8C. In many parts of Scotland, north-east England, Lincolnshire and Norfolk the snow cover survived during the 3rd and 4th, with just slight afternoon thaws despite near-unbroken sunshine, though milder air resulted in a more rapid thaw in the sun on the 5th.