I assume you must have been up a mountain, or have been lucky enough to experience something not in the records. There’s never been recorded snow in August in lowland England. 

Sorry to spam, but I think reading in between the lines, you might be flogging a dead horse here.

Edit:  I just did four posts!  Spammer apolgies. That is half my annual allowance used up  

Just reposting this for moomin’s benefit. East Anglia the driest part of the whole country!

 

 

Just reposting this for moomin’s benefit. East Anglia the driest part of the whole country!

 

I assume you must have been up a mountain, or have been lucky enough to experience something not in the records. There’s never been recorded snow in August in lowland England. 

I'll tag that one.

I googled "What is the coldest August on record UK?"

and it came up with:

"The lowest August temperature recorded for the UK is -4.5°C at Lagganlia in Inverness-shire, Scotland in 1973. which isn't a surprise. and

obviously nowhere near the SE"

However I cannot find anything snow related for August in the SE UK.

I do remember it snowing, but it was probably a bit like a flash bulb going off, ingrained on my retina for 10 minutes and then gone! :)

 

To be fair, that would still be anecdotal, let alone be statistically impossible.  Just saying.

Hmm.. I probably shouldn't be posting here, as this forum is for the weather science and model outputs and not for some of the wet lettuce brigade such as myself  I'll make no more comments!

 

   I thought everybody loved a good thunder storm?? 

They're wasted on me. I'd much sooner remain hot and sunny. 

 Yes, I know this has been said before, although not just a TWO cliché, I often hear it said.   Maybe it just seems that way.  A bit like talking to people abroad who think it always rains in the UK, because that’s what they’ve heard from us so many times.

It's something I never really noticed... until having my own kids.

I think what made it stand out like a sore thumb to me was the run of Augusts we had during my eldest's school years.

2006 had a great June/July but a poor August (and great Sept)

2007 - 2012 were average-to-poor summers overall. In the 7 years my eldest was at primary school, all but 3 sports days were called-off. The kids' holidays were just as bad. But I still 'felt' like the best spells came at the start of summers.

2013 & 2014, the best spell of summer weather happened in the first two-thirds of July, with August being the worst of the 3 summer months

2018 had the best weather for much of the country in that May/June/July period (although Aug wasn't 'terrible' and I know further toward the SE Aug was good)

Certainly that 2006 to 2014 period saw August overall to be the worst of the 3 summer months. In 06, 13 & 14, we saw the breakdown of great summer spells at around the time the kids broke up from school in late July, and no repeat in August.

I don't, though, remember this being a 'thing' when I was younger.

Hopefully it was/is just a coincidental anomaly that will disappear totally. 

 

They're wasted on me. I'd much sooner remain hot and sunny. 

Likewise. But, if it has to rain, then some pyro action thrown in is a bonus.

 

   I thought everybody loved a good thunder storm?? 

Nope. Hate them. Hate rain. Literally nothing interests me about them. I won’t even bother the curtains if there’s a storm going on

 

Nope. Hate them. Hate rain. Literally nothing interests me about them. I won’t even bother the curtains if there’s a storm going on

You must hate your trips to Florida, then!

As for Snow in August, I've known of an Air Frost in low lying East Anglia. Santon Downham recorded a Min of -1.5C on Aug 1st 1976, yes that year!

In the largely forgotten hot summer of 1975, it snowed in June.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/1975-overshadowed-by-drought-of-2876858

I was working on a Suffolk farm at the time and remember it well. A sunny day then a sudden darkening line of very low cloud, 30 minutes of fairly heavy snow and then it stopped. None of it settled, of course, but it threw the farm owner, who was a bit of a weather buff. He was in his eighties and had a number of oft-recalled weather events from down the years but June snow was not amongst them.

For hot weather, it was the summer of 1921 and he referenced everything since then as being less extreme than that summer. 1975 was close in but in 1976 he finally conceded that 1921 was surpassed.

 

In the largely forgotten hot summer of 1975, it snowed in June.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/1975-overshadowed-by-drought-of-2876858

I was working on a Suffolk farm at the time and remember it well. A sunny day then a sudden darkening line of very low cloud, 30 minutes of fairly heavy snow and then it stopped. None of it settled, of course, but it threw the farm owner, who was a bit of a weather buff. He was in his eighties and had a number of oft-recalled weather events from down the years but June snow was not amongst them.

For hot weather, it was the summer of 1921 and he referenced everything since then as being less extreme than that summer. 1975 was close in but in 1976 he finally conceded that 1921 was surpassed.

Aye - was a complete surprise. Massive wet flakes where I was at home in Colchester. Stopped the county cricket there

 

In the largely forgotten hot summer of 1975, it snowed in June.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/1975-overshadowed-by-drought-of-2876858

I was working on a Suffolk farm at the time and remember it well. A sunny day then a sudden darkening line of very low cloud, 30 minutes of fairly heavy snow and then it stopped. None of it settled, of course, but it threw the farm owner, who was a bit of a weather buff. He was in his eighties and had a number of oft-recalled weather events from down the years but June snow was not amongst them.

For hot weather, it was the summer of 1921 and he referenced everything since then as being less extreme than that summer. 1975 was close in but in 1976 he finally conceded that 1921 was surpassed.

Interesting if we emulate 1921.

The October of 1921 was very warm even hot in the first 2 weeks.

 

In the largely forgotten hot summer of 1975, it snowed in June.

https://www.thecricketer.com/topics/features/clive_lloyd_buxton_summer_1975_snow_stopped_play_june_lancashire_derbyshire.html

GFS and UKMO perhaps tropical downpours next week

GFS and UKMO perhaps tropical downpours next week

 

Yep, all about to go bang I think with a 1976-esque deluge to end the drought,  just in time for my holiday! 😡

 

Yep, all about to go bang I think with a 1976-esque deluge to end the drought,  just in time for my holiday! 😡

 76 did not end with a bang here. started raining very lightly about Sunday lunch time and by bedtime it was a steady rain which went on all night . After that there were a few fine days before a succession of depressions giving a lot of rain. 

 

In the largely forgotten hot summer of 1975, it snowed in June.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/1975-overshadowed-by-drought-of-2876858

I was working on a Suffolk farm at the time and remember it well. A sunny day then a sudden darkening line of very low cloud, 30 minutes of fairly heavy snow and then it stopped. None of it settled, of course, but it threw the farm owner, who was a bit of a weather buff. He was in his eighties and had a number of oft-recalled weather events from down the years but June snow was not amongst them.

For hot weather, it was the summer of 1921 and he referenced everything since then as being less extreme than that summer. 1975 was close in but in 1976 he finally conceded that 1921 was surpassed.