19-20 September 1919, snow covered the ground at low levels in Scotland and northern England, while a substantial fall of snow occurred across Dartmoor, Exmoor and the high ground of Wales.
1934 Mild and dull, but turning cold at the end of the month. Snow is rare in October, but there were snow showers in the Midlands on the 31st. 5 cms at Belvoir Castle in Leics., and a light covering in parts of the Chilterns. This is the last time there was snow lying in southern England in October.
You're probably less likely to have these around in summer though. But what happens if it snows in summer? You might be thinking it's impossible, but snow has been recorded in London in summer before.
A snowy year. 1925-26: Late November saw snow in London, East Anglia, and North East England, Norwich recording 7 inches. There was also notable snow in mid January, and also mid May in the Cotswolds!
However, the Dickensian scene of widespread snow lying on the ground on Christmas Day is much rarer. There has only been a widespread covering of snow on the ground (where more than 40% of stations in the UK reported snow on the ground at 9 am) four times since 1960—in 1981, 1995, 2009 and 2010.
That's because over the past 64 years, a snowflake has fallen somewhere in the UK on Christmas Day 53 times, and that's all you need for an official White Christmas.
On 2 June 1975 snow showers forced the abandonment of several cricket matches across the country. The snowiest winter of the twentieth century in the United Kingdom was 1947.
Snow in June is incredibly rare in the Midlands. But ten years later Mother Nature defied the odds again. On June 7, 1985, a sleet shower fell on Birmingham Airport. There were a few flurries in June 2009 as well – but nothing like the scenes 40 years back.
Serious snowfall in the winter of 1947. Thousands of people were cut off for days by snowdrifts up to seven metres deep during the winter of 1947, which saw exceptional snowfall. Supplies had to be flown in by helicopter to many villages, and the armed forces were called in to help clear roads and railways.
Part of hourly British Isles chart for 10am on 2 June 1975 showing plotted observations of snowfall (small stars) especially across eastern areas of England. Sleet and snow were reported in East Anglia and the Midlands and even penetrated as far south as the London area.
We last saw snow in May all the way back in… 2011, just last year, and we also saw more snow in 2010. If we look back through the records dating back to 1910, the snowiest May on record was most likely in 1979 when 342 weather observation sites reported snow on 2 May.
While the chance of wintry weather does tend to decrease as April goes on, there have been significant April snow events in the past. In 1981, the end of the month was blasted with 20-30 cm of snow widely across England, even as far south as Gloucestershire . The chance of some snow showers in the north to end April.
So, although some milder and unsettled weather appears likely, there could be prolonged spells of drier weather as high pressure becomes dominant. It could turn cold at times with the more blocked weather too, though confidence is low on how cold and where may be coldest and see risk of wintry weather.
11-12 July 1888, snow was reported to have fallen over the Isle of Wight, Kent, East Midlands, East Yorkshire, Isle of Man, and the south Midlands. The snow may have been mistaken for soft hail in parts of southern England. 16 June 1889, snow occurred across the high ground of N England and Scotland.
It was in Buxton in Derbyshire and it stopped a county cricket match against Lancashire. The correct answer is 'No it didn't snow in June 1976′. However It did snow in June 1975, in Buxton, interrupting a cricket match Derbyshire vs.
The deepest snow ever recorded in an inhabited area of the UK was near Ruthin in North Wales during the severe winter of 1946-47. A series of cold spells brought large drifts of snow across the UK, causing transport problems and fuel shortages. During March 1947 a snow depth of 1.65 metres was recorded.
The Sphinx is historically the UK's longest lasting patch and lies in Garbh Choire Mor, a hollow known as a coire and formed by ice or a glacier during the last ice age. The coire is described as Scotland's snowiest because of the amount of snow it can hold even through summer months.
Snow blanketed most of Great Britain in late January 2013, stretching from London to the northern tip of Scotland. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on January 26, 2013.
Tulloch Bridge and Aviemore in Scotland recorded a mixture of rain and snow on Christmas day - despite parts of the country reaching the highest minimum daily temperature on record for 25 December.
For more southern areas of the UK away from the highest hills there have only been six classic widespread white Christmas days when snow has fallen and laid giving a good cover during the 20th century. They were 1906, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1956 and 1970.
Was a bit disappointed how the narrator pointed out CORRECTLY that 1981 didn't officially count as a white Christmas because not a single flake of snow fell on the met office building in London that day. But then INCORRECTLY said the last such one was in 2010.
