One notable feature of this month was the lack of precipitation in parts of western Scotland. As it moved away, temperatures were already rising in the very south west of the UK. Later on was able ride down to the town centre on the frozen river. Just glad I lived throughi it even though we had no central heating or double glazing. Ice floes on The River Mersey, River Dee frozen over, even the sea froze for a mile out in Kent and the Medway posts were ice.locked. Some of the charts for Jan and Feb 1963 were mindblowing at the time.Yes remember winter very well,First time seen snow plough in Birmingham, There is episode of Steptoe and Son that location shots around London streets filmed that winter, Great winter,nice times had by us kids Great fun for us kids. I also subscibed to the Daily Surface synoptic charts for Europe and the Atlantic which were posted out each day from the Met Office. This c…Everything you need to know about the forecast, and making the most of the weather.The latest breakthroughs, research and news from the Met Office.Support your business with world-leading science and technology. London experienced terrible fog, for a time. A series of synoptic charts taken from the Daily Weather report of the Meteorological Office as published during the winter of 1962/63.
Wish I kept it, but was determined to become a meteorologist and started work with the Met Office 8 years later. It took all day to thaw out if you were lucky.Yep, Salisbury Plain was at the heart of the UK freezer during that winter.
Valid: 11/08/2020 0600 - 12/08/2020 0600 Supplies had to be flown in by helicopter to many villages, and the armed forces were called in to help clear roads and railways.Between January and March that year, snow fell every day somewhere in the country for 55 days straight.
It was unprecedented in February.Another unusual feature of February 1947 was the lack of sunshine in the Midlands and south of England - a complete contrast to the north-west of Scotland, where the weather was unusually sunny.When skies did clear, night-time temperatures plunged. Seventy per cent of all houses in the town were flooded. The snowstorm heading over Scotland was to be the last over the UK for this cold spell, however. The flooding issues continued into the spring, bringing a nasty end to the cold and snowy winter.With temperatures so cold the sea froze in places, 1963 is one of the coldest winters on record. I was 8 and it was pure bliss all winter long! I was 8 and it was pure bliss all winter long!
South Today has taken a look back in its archives at the winter of 1963 when a cold spell gripped the UK for several months. While snow fell, and settled there was still plenty of sunshine. and general weather for that whole winter hereIt was that winter that really got me into chart watching-i think i hardly missed a day where i would look at the BBC evening weather forecast-in black and white then of course and just simple lines(isobars)and fronts on the presentation map.I recall many days either after school or weekends when a whole crowd of us would meet up for sledging,snowball fights,building igloos and ice football on frozen ponds-the latter was quite a challenge.lol.I wouldn`t suggest the walking on ice covered water now but after a while in that winter the ice was at least 6inches or more thick.I started a weather diary on Jan 1st 1963 and recorded that the final bit of snow cover thawed on March 2nd and taking into account that the snow first fell on the 26th Dec 1962 that was 66days of continual cover.Add on some really low maximum and minimum readings and it really was a remarkable winter.
Roads and railways were blocked, telephone lines brought down, and some villages were left cut off for several days. The winter of 1963 - the coldest for more than 200 years With temperatures so cold the sea froze in places, 1963 is one of the coldest winters on record. No central heating or double glazing and an inch of dust in the roof space for insulation. Woburn in Bedfordshire registered a low of of -21 °C early on 25 February.If February hadn't been bad enough, March was even worse. Temperatures weren't much higher for most of February.The long bitterly cold spell caused lakes and rivers to freeze, even sea water in some of England's harbours turned to ice. I was working at Larkhill at the time and the Salisbury Plain resembled the Antarctic.The main Met. "Most of England and Wales had a blanket of snow right through the month. Wish I kept it, but was determined to become a meteorologist and started work with the Met Office 8 years later. The town of Selby was almost completely under water. I can remember my father standing me on the front room window sill and looking out of the window at the immense snow drifts in our road even in Bournemouth and telling me to take it all in because I might never see snow like this again.The next time we stood together in a window and marveled at the depth of the snow was fifteen years later in February 1978 at Worth Matravers in the Purbeck hills of Dorset when the snow was even deeper than 1963!Happy memories!!!!
The electric fire had to used to stop the Dines from freezing.The heating in the radiosonde office had gone on the blink and couldn't be repaired because, although on an army camp, the army insisted it was an R.A.F building. You never staying in the bathroom for long... brrr... happy memories.Lol you mean chart viewing would have put the mockers on it.Well we know it did happen and we are lucky or mad enough to have enjoyed it-maybe our youth helped!I do recall some less attractive aspects of it like you though-no central heating,just a coal fire in the lounge.Shivering elsewhere in the house and ice on the inside of the bedroom windows so you had to scrape them to look out when you woke up.Like you said though we still went to school everyday but walking was quite common then.Many families had no cars and of course the buses struggled to get through.Was a telegram boy during the school holidays.
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