Not down here. Ice days have become all but extinct, meaning what little snow does fall tends to be very fragile, sloshy wet stuff rather than the more resilient powder.
Look back at the Manston records, for example:
https://en.tutiempo.net/climate/01-1997/ws-37970.html
and you'll see we used to get strings of ice days, rather than none at all.
That led to two things:
- Powder, ie dry snow
- Drifting of said powder snow, filling in ditches and building up a deep buffer of snow
- Snow on snow "top up" events
As a result, snow would linger for days or even weeks, rather than thawing as soon as it stops snowing. Feb 2005 was the case in point: 14 days in a row with snow due to a proper easterly, but the air involved was too warm (too late in the year!) and it was thawing pretty much continuously. Yes, there was snow on the ground but there were no ice days.
I'm glad I still have photos and memories of the 80s and 90s. That said, they make the recent 21 years seem pretty rubbishy in comparison, with Dec 2010 and Feb 2005 only serving to remind me how good it used to be!
That is a very useful site which will come in handy when I am comparing this year with what has happened in the past. For here in Edinburgh, that only has the data for two of my local stations which are Edinburgh Gogarbank and Edinburgh Airport, whereas the botanic gardens in Edinburgh isn't listed there. This also shows clearly that Edinburgh Gogarbank is actually a much newer station than Edinburgh Airport as the data for there, only goes as far back as 2003 whereas the data for Edinburgh Airport goes all the way back to 1973.
I have also found out from that site, that Edinburgh Airport used to be the main station in Edinburgh for recording rainfall totals, although there hasn't been any such data for that since 1998. Nowadays of course, rainfall totals data is no longer recorded at Edinburgh Airport and so, it is Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh which have now become the main centres for such data.
Since this is a thread for perceiving how we see past weather in terms of how we remember it. I would say that for me, we tend to remember things in such a way that we tend to remember only the most dominant weather at that time. This means that decent summers are remembered as though that was what the weather was like all the time with cold and severe winters being remembered in the same manner. This means that it is easy to forgot that even a really good summer will still have had at least one cooler and more unsettled spell of weather within it at some in time and in the same way, we also tend to forget that even our coldest and most severe winters will have had at least one milder spell within it at some point in time.
It is the same with poor summers and mild winters because a poor summer will be remembered as though it had done nothing but rain all the time during that period with mild winters being remembered as though there was never a single cold day within them. The actually reality though is that even a mild winter will at least one brief cold snap within it, whereas a poor summer will still always have at least one run of two or three decent days within it. The nice thing is as well, is that sites such as the one which I have just mentioned helps to put that into perspective quite nicely.
Having sites such as the one which I've just mentioned though, helps to put all of that into perspective really nicely.
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Monday, January 22, 2018 6:23:28 PM
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.