Actual snow reports showed snow lying at 9AM in Jan 1984.
Kindrogan (Perthshire) 30
Glasgow /Edinburgh 20
Manchester 6
London 1. Incidentally the sunniest January here in almost 100 years.
Tornadoes and giant hailstones were reported in Yorkshire and the SW as the deep depressions passed.
Coastal ares in S England and Wales had no reported lying snow so very North to South. Scotland and at times N England benefited later in the month from depressions crossing to the South bringing winds temporarily round to the East so even Eastern areas got in in the act. My home area in Highland Perthshire had 60 cms level and a Low of -20C. Leadhills had 112 cms level.
Temperatures varied from well below average at 0.3C in Scotland to slightly above average in the far South.
January 1984 was one of the wettest Januaries on record here and a good proportion of the precipitation was snow with the ground covered on 19 mornings here and a max depth of 22cm on 23rd January.
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/maps/archive/1984/noaa/NOAA_1_1984012306_1.png
There were heavy falls around that period as far south as East Anglia as outlined in the Snow Survey of 1983/84.
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/file/sdb%3AdigitalFile%7Cf8a682b1-2e14-4432-a9dc-2f7d3c9213d9/
The synoptics being modelled currently are nothing like those of January 1984. 1984 looks more like a colder version of January 2014 type synoptics and it’s very rare for that type of set-up to give anything other than rain or sleet here.
The current model output shows this spell to be bone dry here which would be likely with westerly winds such as this http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1261.html
but it is not at all likely that a north westerly flow like this would be dry here
http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1501.html
It was the same when we saw snowfall in December the models showed bone dry north westerly flows which is just nonsense for this location.
Should see a few cm if that comes off but absolutely nothing like January 1984 that’s for sure.
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