White Christmas Brighton & Hove

[Chicken Run]

Can anyone tell me what year the last one was, this will be my 47th Christmas and I don't think there has been one in my lifetime! Oh and I don't mean a couple of snowflakes either, proper snow on the ground ready to go sledging.

 

[Insel affe]

Can anyone tell me what year the last one was, this will be my 47th Christmas and I don't think there has been one in my lifetime! Oh and I don't mean a couple of snowflakes either, proper snow on the ground ready to go sledging.

Oh god no thanks....

Can't think of anything worse than slipping and skidding all over the place on the way back from my afternoon pint...

 

[The Clamp]

2010 apparently. Snow, lovely when it's falling, a pain when it turns to sludge covered ice. Mind you, when it falls on a normal weekday and a snow day means no work and a stroll to a country pub, strangers and kin in good spirits. Now that is one of life's great pleasures.

 

[Notters]

2010 apparently. Snow, lovely when it's falling, a pain when it turns to sludge covered ice. Mind you, when it falls on a normal weekday and a snow day means no work and a stroll to a country pub, strangers and kin in good spirits. Now that is one of life's great pleasures.

2010?! more like 1810.

 

[Chicken Run]

2010 apparently. Snow, lovely when it's falling, a pain when it turns to sludge covered ice. Mind you, when it falls on a normal weekday and a snow day means no work and a stroll to a country pub, strangers and kin in good spirits. Now that is one of life's great pleasures.

2010, u sure, I appreciate that winter wasn't to pretty but I don't remember snow on the ground in Brighton at Christmas that year?

 

[Taybha]

1962 for sure , cant remember one since though i do remember it flumped down new years eve in the 80s , nice mild night went into sherrys wearing a lovely new skimpy top and nice new spats it took me 2 hours to slide home

 

[GT49er]

1962 for sure , cant remember one since though i do remember it flumped down new years eve in the 80s , nice mild night went into sherrys wearing a lovely new skimpy top and nice new spats it took me 2 hours to slide home

Pretty sure it was Boxing Day that it started snowing in '62.

Met office seems to agree:

The winter of 1962/63 was the coldest for 200 years in Britain. The Met Office describe it:
It began abruptly just before Christmas in 1962. The weeks before had been changeable and stormy, but then on 22 December a high pressure system moved to the north-east of the British Isles, dragging bitterly cold winds across the country. This situation was to last much of the winter.
A belt of rain over northern Scotland on 24 December turned to snow as it moved south, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938. The snow-belt reached southern England on Boxing Day and parked over the country, bringing a snowfall of up to 30 cm.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I reckon there was one about '72, as I remember walking down Hartington Road to my aunt's house with about an inch of snow on the ground, always went to my aunt's at Xmas. But it may have been Boxing Day........

 

[The Clamp]

2010, u sure, I appreciate that winter wasn't to pretty but I don't remember snow on the ground in Brighton at Christmas that year?

Apparently

 

[The Clamp]

Oh, maybe not in Brighton.

 

[Notters]

Oh, maybe not in Brighton.

I imagine it was widespread tup north.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Mid 70s - it was certainly a white Christmas when I was in single digits.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

There was snow on the ground Christmas day 2010. This I know to be a fact as I traipsed through Stamner Woods with my dog. It was also bloody cold which is why the snow hadn't melted from the months earlier dumpings.
I've just read a Jackanory story from the Daily Fail about the impending armageddon weather event due to hit the UK this Christmas. Every year they forecast the coldest ever since the ice age. The NAO and the AO models do not seem to indicate they are going to be correct this time around