Snow

Annie did you post last year that you have an actual snow phobia?
Or is my memory just rubbish

I think that the years I remember snow of any significance are 1962-63, 1981-82, 1995 I think, I remember trudging to work through the snow and 2010.

I have a vague recollection of seeing a blizzard in what must have been 1947 and we were anxiously waiting for DM to come home from the grocer's.

In North East Cheshire I don't think the temperature has gone above 2C today and there was a slight wind-chill when I was out. Last night the minimum was -5C. When we were children in the 50s on the West coast of Scotland, we used to find that the big pools left behind by the tide were frozen and one or two who owned skates ventured on to the ice. The washing on the line was frequently frozen stiff when we were sent out to bring it in. In 1963, I was commuting into Edinburgh from Linlithgow to attend my post grad education course. There were huge icicles, like organ pipes, beside the railway line where field drains had frozen. The snow started at Christmas and the thaw didn't arrive until February.

I remember, must have been the winter 1955/56, going to school on the double decker school bus in the snow, then after a while the driver stopped, said to us, "It`s just too deep now for me to carry on, you`re halfway to school, so it`s up to you whether you go to school or home." Guess how many went to school? The snow was waist deep on the trudge home. That was S.Yorkshire, travelling from Elsecar to Ecclesfield Grammar.
The last major snowfall here in Boston was the winter `86/`87. Hubby walked to work because the car was snowed in, so the kids decided to shovel all the snow off the car and from around it, to surprise their dad. Just as they finished, a load of snow slid off the roof and buried it again, lol!
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We had a little flurry this afternoon; it blew in, and then blew out again!

In mid Cheshire it's quite sunny but very cold. Not had snow for a long time we are very sheltered re weather.

Well it's sunny on the Wirral. The wind is bitterly cold though. Doesn't help being by the sea. I've decided to hibernate

April 1963 was the year I joined the Army and I remember there being snow up here when I left, but I don’t remember there being any in Surrey when i arrived at our training depot. It was certainly very cold. December 1981, when we came home from Holland to take over the house we had bought, was one of the worst winters I remember. We struggled down from the Hull ferry with only one lane of the M1 open and lorries abandoned because their diesel was freezing. When we got home, there was so much snow outside our house we couldn’t get near it. Two BT engineers who were working on a junction box opposite kindly lent DH a shovel and it took him an hour and a quarter to dig his way from the road down to the front door! The car stayed virtually abandoned for two days as nothing ever moved on our road when it snowed. The day before New Year’s Eve, the central heating packed up!

2010 was a very bad winter at least here in the NE. The snow started in November I think and lay for weeks and even daytime temperatures were often below zero. That's the last really bad one I can remember.

Living on the border of Greater London and Essex - I am grateful that we have not had much snow the past few years. Can well remember the big fall of 1962/63, but there were plenty of other years after that. All my children have photos of themselves building snowmen in the 70's and 80's. I also have a lovely photo of the g.daughter who lives locally building an enormous one about six or seven years ago. The local children all go tobagganing when there is deep snow at a local hillside. I live in small cul-de-sac, at the end, and can remember when I was still working (I retired in 2010), not being able to get my car out to get to work a year or so before that. Must say I detest winter and am very nervous about driving anywhere when there is snow on the ground.

I remember a heavy snow in London when I was studying in Manchester (so would have been the winter of 1989/90). In Manchester it was only a few centrimetres, but the train from Manchester to London was held up for a long time getting into London, and the snow there was almost knee-deep!

I vaguely remember the thick snow of 1962-63 in the S.E. I think that's the winter the sea froze.
I also remember a white Christmas c1969 ?? The last heavy snow here I believe was late '70s. We had gone to London and coming home the main line train was running but our local branch line wasn't and we finished the journey on a railworkers minibus.
Since then we've only ever had a dusting.

I live in South East London and was amazed when I was walking my dog in the park this morning when it started to snow!! It wasn't enough to settle but enough to delight me at the sight of it. I know it causes lots of problems to lots of people when it does settle but somehow I just find it really exciting - I know I am a big kid at heart

We have none here in Yorkshire but know there's quite a bit on the east coast this morning. I remember the very bad winter of 1979 when my husband got stuck in it whilst travelling up north - he had to reverse up the A1 and then spent a night in a pub sharing a room with a stranger. He managed to get within half a mile of home when he got stuck again and had to be pulled free by a passing tractor. The last bad snow we had here was 7 years ago but also remember lots of snow when I was a child up north that lasted (or seemed to) for ages.

Snowy is snowy when it's snowing
Not looking forward to the next line. Hunting for boots.

In the 50s we had quite a few snowy winters but the harshest winter I can really remember was 1963, the north sea froze as the waves broke on the shore.
It has snowed constantly since 8.30 this morning and there is a covering of about 14cm.

Terrified of the stuff,

Lots of snow here this morning (north east coast) . We live at the top of a steep hill and the buses aren't attempting it for now. Luckily we're used to it and have a well stocked store cupboard.
I actually could go out in the garden and make a snowman (if I was daft enough that is.)

Our shortcut to school took us through the woods - magical with the snow - and on our way home we used to ‘toboggan’ on my satchel up and down a bomb crater! Didn’t do much for the satchel and I got into trouble for ruining it!

I remember taking a short cut to school over a huge building site which was covered in snow. Looking back it was highly dangerous as you couldn't see where you were walking. Obviously these days it would be fenced off.

Looking outside as I type its like a Christmas card (except that I'm on an ugly industrial estate) but I expect this might be my little grandsons first experience of "real" snow.

We had big snow when I lived in the Yorkshire Dales a few years ago which prompted us to make a sad decision to come a bit further south to the Midlands. I hate snow and get very depressed, cant get warm and my arthritis plays up something horrible.

We had very deep snow in the South West in the winter of (I think) 1962/3 which lasted a very long time, but other than that, I don't recall any other significant snowfalls.

I remember the snow sitting for weeks in the late 50s and early 60s. We lived in the south east. I definitely remember my feet suffering from chilblains ??