We're coming up to 10 years since this interesting spell of weather. The final days of October 2008 saw northerly winds bring notably low temperatures and even snow to quite a large portion of the UK. Strangely, I have absolutely no memory of this one, so I could tell you if it snowed in my area or not.
The early-season cold wave began on 27 October as an area of low pressure moved north-east of the UK and high pressure moved out west, shifting winds into the north.
On 28 October, a weather front from the south west interacted with the cold air that was in place across the UK, bringing an exceptionally widespread snowfall for October. Snow was even reported in London and other areas of South East England for the first time since 1934, and lay up to a depth of 3cm quite widely. In some areas, the snow lay for several days. Nottingham recorded a maximum temperature of just 5.3C on this day.
Skies then turned clear overnight, bringing a hard frost on the morning of the 29th. Though the spell didn't see any record-breakingly low temperatures, some areas saw their coldest October day for 50 years. A minimum of -6.6C was recorded at Topcliffe, North Yorkshire and a maximum of just 3.1C was recorded at Leek, Staffordshire. There were also more snow showers reported on this day.
The final days of October seen the spell moderate slightly. Temperatures remained chilly, but the depth of cold had eased. Halloween was cold in 2008 under a north-easterly wind.
I'm probably going to make a historic video on this event and the winter of 2008-09 some time next week.
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Saturday, October 20, 2018 2:43:53 AM
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