Snow weather record

[Cycling Naturalist]

I've had snow continuously in my garden since 23rd December. After rain last night, most had gone and it was confined to part of the back garden. However, it has started snowing again. I have always noted the amount of snow on the ground each year and recall that the most there had ever been in previous winters (notably early 70's and 80's) was 2-3 weeks usually spread over several falls.

The present figure of 28 days of continuous snow on the ground in my garden is therefore something of a record. Can anyone better this?

 

[Theseus]

Aye, it first snowed here on 17th Dec and we still have it on the ground in patches.

 

[marinyork]

Did you not have any on the 16th Patrick? That's interesting. Other places would have had better than that by a day or two because we got snow on 16th December and it stayed till recently.

 

[Wocce Racer]

in 1962-63 when I was six months old, it was on the ground from December to March. I wish I could have seen it!

 

[ASC1951]

I did, WR. It was disappointingly similar to the snow we get nowadays.

Actually, it wasn't. There was feet of the stuff and Games was cancelled for a whole term, but the buses still got me the six miles to school every day and the radio - my dad was too tight to get a telly, using the excuse that it would rot our brains - wasn't full of limp-wristed reporters bleating on about Frozen Britain.

Our playground was on a slope and for weeks each form had its own jealously guarded ice slide, inspecting your shoes before you were allowed to go on it. Sure, we fell over and cracked our swedes every now and then, but the teachers and school caretaker simply cleared paths through the snow to get to the various buildings and let us get on with spraining our wrists and cracking our swedes.

My form teacher (who retired without having had a sickie in his entire career) used to walk three miles in every morning because he got teed off with having himself and his bike sprayed with slush. These days he would have had the school closed for the whole term.