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A November Winter Anecdote

Hyacinth B — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:27:12 +0000

The unusual weather in the northeast of America has brought to mind an anecdote from 1996. I had been living in America, New York, for three years and fell absolutely in love with the place.
However, having never truly experienced “real” snow, originally from the south of England, I wasn’t prepared for the onslaught that winter. With snow up to my thighs and I am five-foot-seven, mind you, I had never ever seen anything like it!
As much as the snow threw many spanners in the works for my American compatriots, I was still in love with New York several months after the snow had melted and the glimmer of Spring peeked it’s comforting promise of warmth into my world.
Now that I am in Spain for a while, I can sympathise with my friends in the US and in particular Connecticut, but you won’t catch me back there for quite some time!

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Thor’s Day – February 18 – 1979

Mark F — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:01:27 +0000

With all the snow we have seen this year in Washington D.C. I figured this anecdote was somewhat topical and certainly not tropical. On February 18, 1979 snow fell in the Sahara Desert for the only time in recorded history.

Unusual Weather

Hyacinth B — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:00:15 +0000

The UK and much of Europe has been hit by the coldest and snowiest weather seen in decades – much to their chagrin! Having lived in the North East of America for several years I am almost accustomed to the snow and bone-chilling temperatures.

In the UK everything ground to a halt – trains, buses, airports – the whole lot. Emergency crews were overwhelmed and everything that could shut down was shut down.

When I was very young I remember a snowstorm in the UK that crippled the entire transportation system and gave all of us kids several days off school. When we woke up and saw several feet of blanketed snow outside just ready for us to dive into and rumple, we could hardly contain ourselves. I had ever before seen so much snow in England before that and never since.

I thought it funny when several callers in to a TV station at the height of the storm, enquired whether or not global warming was the culprit for this type of weather anomaly. I was pleasantly comforted when the weather reporter insisted that these types of weather variances have been happening for centuries. It’s just that it hasn’t occurred in the UK for such a long time, we had almost forgotten. Well I haven’t forgotten and like the majority of things in life I am certain that we have not seen the last of unusual weather activity.