Having seen the summer thred ..what's your thoughts on winters past? I absolutely hate winter weather and do my best to hibernate for some of it!!that said they aren't as severe as the fifties sixties or seventies. Everything came to a standstill 6ft snow drifts were common everything was frozen. I grew up with Jack Frost I haven't seen him since the seventies. It was much colder back then...but I still can't be doing with it!

So much better than the summer gets way too hot here in Scotland

We just don't get snow in the South West any more.

ablueclaret wrote:We just don't get snow in the South West any more.

Your lucky,having said that it's getting milder up north as well.

No, winter without snow is miserable, it makes winter worthwhile.

ablueclaret wrote:We just don't get snow in the South West any more.

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Snow in the South West? Just doesn't happen anymore.*

* Well at least not for a handful of years.

34 years in the South West perhaps 10 days of snow.

It snows infrequently in the South West.

Because it's the South West - where it doesn't snow frequently.

But that's not what you said. You said that it doesn't snow there any more.

But it does. It snows there statistically as often as you would expect it to snow there.

ablueclaret wrote:No, winter without snow is miserable, it makes winter worthwhile.

Apart from the disruption ...yes I guess your right.

I live in rossendale and we do still get a dollop of snow through winter.
What I have noticed is that it doesn't stick around as long these days.

Well it certainly snowed more in my youth and I lived in the South -West then.

ablueclaret wrote:Well it certainly snowed more in my youth and I lived in the South -West then.

I spent three years at university in Exeter, 1983-86. It snowed once, and that had all melted by 10 am. That one day was unusually snowy.

On the other hand, Dartmoor is also in the South West. They probably get more snow in June than Exeter gets in winter. Which bits of the south west are you talking about, blue?

I'm thinking about winter and wondering, I think it's the nights already drawing in and the heat gone.

It doesn't snow enough in the Alps any more, can't guarantee decent snow for skiing. Mer de Glace glacier, Chamonix, is a lot shorter today than it was when I first saw it in 1965.

The winter of 1962/63 was impressive: started snowing on Boxing Day and the drifts were still 6 foot high at Easter.

And, it's a long, long time since we've had a frost fair on the Thames. (Though, the river was wider and shallower in years gone by, there wasn't the embankments keeping the river confined).

Jack Frost is no indication that winters are getting milder. In the 60s very few people had central heating and no-one had double glazing. They are the 2 reasons that Jack Frost has disappeared.

I can confirm that this winter it did not snow in Las Cruces New Mexico. But last winter it did! Make of that what you will.

We don't get snow either in my part of Canada. We used to have some real howling blizzards, and enough snow to almost cover the telephone poles on exposed east-west roads. Now, it doesn't stay cold enough to even snow much.

Charlie!!! Good to hear from you. I guess this summer makes up for the snow last year. By the way, are you involved in the nuclear industry at Los Cruces?

Can we at least get through summer before we start thinking about winter. I know it crap at the moment but let's at least enjoy it first.

Cirrus_Minor wrote:Can we at least get through summer before we start thinking about winter. I know it crap at the moment but let's at least enjoy it first.

Enjoy what?