The UK's coldest December in 100 years: December 2010
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- The UK's coldest December in 100 years: December 2010. December 2010 was the coldest December in 100 years for the UK. During December 2010, the UK experienced two spells of severe winter weather. There were very low temperatures and significant snowfalls across the country.
For much of December, the wind came from an E to NE direction. This brought very cold air from northern Europe and Siberia. As the very cold air stagnated over snow-covered ground, it became colder and colder.
On 2 December 2010, almost all of the UK was covered by lying snow. The deepest snow was in Scotland and NE England, with over half a metre in places. South east England had snow as deep as 26cm at Charlwood in Surrey. There was even snow lying at Land’s End in Cornwall.
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Falling off my bike on black ice wasn't great but I had the happiest Christmas of my life that year between the snow on the ground and precious time with my boyfriend who passed away only three weeks later due to a major heart condition.
Treasure the memories
That is such a sad comment I'm really sorry for your loss, the snow at Christmas time and being in love must have made for magical, enchanted like memories, just like the movies, there's something about the snow on the ground, while you're indoors curled up in a blanket with a loved one, sipping on hot chocolate that's just so romantic, this must be an incredibly difficult time of year for you each time it rolls around, try to replace any sad thoughts with your cherished memories of this time you had together, god bless
Listen. I am so sorry for your loss. But does the internet need to know?
Listen, I'm truley sorry for your loss but WHY SHARE IT ON THE INTRRNET?!?!?
THIS IS ATTENTION SEEKING
SimmingLauren I agree. 🙌🏾
Sorry for your loss that's a really touching comment.
I remember being so cold waiting at the bus stop one evening (-17) that I decided to not go out and go home! Chilled to the bone.
Very sensible decision
The most beautiful christmas day in the bright cold sun with the landscape blanketed in snow
o wish
remember that very well only 11 months after that brutal january 2010
I remember waking up on christmas day and snow was everywhere and it was the most magical christmas!
Being so cold at night with heating on, full dressed in layers, in bed with blankets!
I remember the “real feel” being significant and unusually cold. The prolonged period of cold was also the major difference to what I’d experienced in the past. It also seemed to stay bitterly cold throughout the day with even midday/afternoons having a biting feel. It basically resembled an Eastern European winter. That was my experience being in Bedfordshire.
I remember this- I was living in Newcastle upon Tyne when this was going on. It was wonderful- like living in a snowglobe. I hope to see this kind of winter again one day.
I was driving an Artic on Night shift. For many nights in December-February 2010 as I was bound towards North Wales on the M56 around 3-4 in the morning, I encountered a temperature of -18 -20c in the area between J12(Runcorn) to the Chester turn off nearby Stanlow refinery. Rime Ice formed on the whole front of the tractor unit and mirrors, creating impressive contours and shapes sculpted by the conditions of freezing temperature and slipstream.
The tories getting in, "NOw, is the winter of discontent"
2010: coldest winter on record
2018: hold my snow!
Not in the north west it wasn’t. 2018 was a bit colder than usual and maybe a centimetre or two of snow over maybe 2 days here in Liverpool. What beast from the east 😂😂😂
2021 cold as hell for Texas literally a number of degrees below 0 in central texas which is super rare
I was 13/14 when this happened and it was one of the deepest snow falls I can remember, I was out with friends and we were flipping into the untouched snow making snow angels and as my friend went to drop into the snow it sides collapsed in onto her and she got covered, we both laughed so much, it was one of the happiest times of my life
Will we ever have a repeat of this weather pattern in our lifetime? Let's hope so 😁
I remember it being -14 in Powys. Christmas Eve was -11 with a frozen River Usk. Boxing Day and finally a thaw. Incredible spell of weather and we did not see significant snow again until Jan 2013 when a red weather warning was given for the Valleys. Great video Liam, as always.
This winter is nostalgic to me, i live in shetland that gets little snow and its one of the only 3 years i got a snow man in 13 years, im 13 now and wish i still got winters like 09-10 and 10-11. This winter was noted for the snow in north east scotland and shetland is in the north east extreme so that explains it. Thank you so much for making this and allowing me to see more about this winter.
Your videos are superb and a great learning resource for my students. Many thanks. Your hard work is much appreciated.
I remember clearing my huge drive with brooms and managing to build an igloo
Liam, in 1986 my hair froze from condensation in my breath, That night it was minus 28.6 Centigrade here in Scotland, the coldest night ever recorded in the UK's towns and Cities, I often wonder how the softy Southerners would cope.
You prune,it is prounounced Celsius not the way you pronounced it in your Comment
I remember one morning walking the dogs, we hadn't had much snowfall yet but the frost on the trees was so thick is looked like it had snowed all night. Have never seen a frost like it since.
I live in NE England and the 1st cold spell from 26th Nov until 10th Dec was very snowy. Constant heavy snow showers off the North Sea. I Saw thunder snow for the first time and we had a level depth of snow of around 40cm. The second spell from Dec 16th until around the 27th was less snowy but very cold.
The winter before was a cold one too with cold spells throughout from Dec 09 to April 10.
We had a particularly snowy period in early Jan 10 where the depths were around 30cm of level snow.
The 09/10 winter was better as a whole for cold and snow but 10/11 had that one truly exceptional month.
I remember the cold temperatures in the morning after my night shifts it was routinely - 14 degrees.
I remember that winter well, i went down a ditch in ditchling and was stuck there for 3 days even the recovery services couldnt even get out until it had thawed out a bit lol
I remember going outside and it was really snowy and the concrete was ice. I was in Year 1
I remember the temperature being -17 in Manchester on December 20th. The windchill was -24. It was crazy. I live near a river and it was frozen solid. I even threw a brick on it and only made a small crack. That river was frozen for pretty much the whole month
Thank you for this good memories. I remember the day before the cold moved in it was quite mild then the back edge of the rain turned to snow and it was cold from then on. Also i love the music in this video.
rain turning to snow, the wind changing from westerly directions to northeast and temperatures dropping fast can be quite impressive. In sea climates you only experience that a few times a life time.
@@roodborstkalf9664 For the UK, that's not strictly true. Anytime there's a block of cold air and a low pressure systems tries to dislodge it and fails can lead to this. This is how the worst blizzards happen.
@@XYZUNKNOWN : Maybe not in the UK, but it is on the other side of the North Sea
@@roodborstkalf9664 it can and will happen in the UK itself
@@roodborstkalf9664 you meant to put quite
I remember being off school (I was in primary school) and the roof of the school collapsed because the snow was so heavy
Snow isn't heavy a roof only collapses when too much piles up on top of it
I remember working as a gas engineer. Newly qualified and only 19, I worked for the council and no word of a lie I had on average 70-80 properties a day where the condensate pipe from the boilers had frozen up and stopped the boilers working. One large kettle full later and hey presto, reset boiler and off to the next one. I worked 25 days throughout December 2009 and I earned an absolute fortune. The next December was similar but not as harsh. Working 14-16 hour days for £600-£700 a day was brilliant! :-) miss those days.
I lived in scunthorpe ,lincs at the time and was 36 then ,and I had never experienced it as cold in my life .I remember the snowfalls especially at night and saying this is going to get very bad ,what an understatement that was ,by time I woke next morning there was 2 ft of snow and cars had been abandoned in middle of the roads .
Ohh god i remember the snow I live in the East of England and I was 2 years old. To be honest I loved it
We had snow on the ground in Arklow,50kms south of Dublin from 28th Nov 2010 to 26th December, it never left until a rainstorm on that last night
Fields were completely covered throughout that period
No-one locally has seen that before even the oldest
It may have lasted longer in 47 or 63 but there were breaks in snow cover
All of the snow came from heavy showers blown in off the Irish sea,max depth here was 19 inches on Xmas week
The car tyres stayed flat at the bottom even when I drove the car it was bumpy till they warmed up. . I lifted weights in the back garden on boxing day in minus 11c at 8 am. on on day it did not rise above minus 7. 5 all day. I went sledging at at midnight in minus 12.
The main thing I remember about that winter was the snow pile left on top of the outdoor waste bins, that where, on their own, roughly half the size of the bin itself
I was only about 9 at the time but I remember people trying to push a double decker up a steep brae in Dundee. For anyone from Dundee it was the 18 that was stuck and the tried pushing it up arklay street and it eventually moved but got stuck again at the top!
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I can just remember driving to our grandparents over Christmas and there being loads
Remember the icicles, and walking through the blizzard to collect my daughter from school. Some days the snow was deeper than her wellies so we used plastic bags to go between the socks and wellies, then changed into shoes at school. The oil sump split in the car too that year.
Amazing sceans of snow drifts over 6 feet high in the hills though. Never seen anything like it.
You mean scenes
I mostly remember this snow storm because i went to go see Buffy Clyro live and stood out in 10 inches of snow for a good 3 hours, great show tho
It all started the back end of November. Loads of snow, relentless day after day. My 2 lads played in the snow every day. Had the time of their lives. It felt as though we were in a very cold European country, very unlike England. There was a small thaw a week into December and it all started again. With a week to go to Christmas we knew we were guaranteed a white Christmas. There were 2 foot long icicles hanging from gutters. It was the greatest Christmas of all time.
I had a brief period living in Switzerland at the time and it was bitterly cold with much snow. We had been living in the south of France before our brief time in Switzerland, and late that December we moved back to the south of France, and it was just as cold - brrr.
I live in the NE of England and me and my dad built a snowman (about 3-4ft) and coming back at night to see the entire snowman gone cuz it was barricaded in snow ( I was around 4-5 years old)
I was 4 years old when it happened and it was a crazy thing but also an amazing thing because it meant I didn’t have to go to a school and this was when online learning was not a thing and the teachers wouldn’t bully and scream at me
But we have recently got extremely cold winters in around December last year
I remember this as being two cold spells with a milder interlude. The snow in Horsham fell at the end of November, the usual inch, then more snow fell in early December, up to about six inches on the grass. This was followed by quite a rapid thaw and some rain which melted the snow. The cold soon returned with further snow which stzuck on the ground until just after Christmas. Milder air came in after Boxing day thawing the snow and that was the end of the severe cold.
You mean stuck
According to suspicious observer RUclips channel Europe might see a repeat of 2010 in 2020
In my flat in shoeburyness essex we had a false black widow problems , It became so cold that thousands of these spiders died out in the open.
I recall seeing loads upside down on grass and path,s as snow melted away.
IT seem,s they were hibernating indoors and it got too cold for them and they tried to flee the cold weather .
The winters of 2009/10 were severe due to SSW, a record low NAO, extremely low solar activity and a split and displaced polar vortex, one lobe of which positioned over Scandinavia.
i was driving my taxi at this time and it froze the heating system..... it was warmer outside my car than in it..............never experienced it so cold
My school closed for 2 weeks not including the Christmas holidays so I had 4 weeks off due to severe snow fall and the boiler broke too
I remember coming home one day. And yes I hate snow! The snow had turned to ice! And i had seen my friends sister and his niece. I slipped over on my bum! Luckily my friends sister and his niece heard me wail. And they helped me up. I had a bruised bottom that night!
best winter ever. This year will be a good one.
Clearing snow from paths and roads at Worthing Hospital with a team of other managers. It was all hands to the pumps then. Walking 3 miles to work as not safe to drive and buses not running. Snow on the beach and pier.
My understanding is the Gulf Stream shifted south that year . What is the chance of that happening permanently ? After all , it has happened once ...
Was this the "barbecue summer and mild winter" year?
All I’d remembered when I was a kid was me just falling and electric being cut off
My town was never forecast for snowfall what so ever. But one night after school, I was adding some more decorations to my Christmas tree with my mum. Then out of nowhere, this snow just started falling. It was snowing through the night and day causing my town to have no power what so ever and everywhere was shut! The coastal town I live in rarely gets snowfall what so ever.
You was quite unlucky to end up getting the snow,this goes to show that if the coasts get cold enough snow will even occur there
I remember it well 30th of November it started in Brigg, Lincs at about 2 in the afternoon it started snowing by 5 Brigg was grid locked tractors towing vehicle’s over the river Ancholme bridge ,I run a small business repairing cleaning equipment we replaced over 30 heat coils in January all been frozen I think lowest temperature was -18’c & 18 inches of snow
Snow frozen on the ground more than any year i can remember. A dodgy fall in Leicester that resulted in a broken phone. Christmas Day looked spectacular.
I remember being in reception and jumping of a chair into the snow
Same I was in reception too right though I'm in year 8 are too ? Lol
I was in nursery
I remember being 4 and the back yard being covered in snow
Loved it 😁 (very small chance it will happen again this winter 🤞)
In Manchester it was the first day I was going back to school and when I woke there was a telephone line in my front garden that had snapped from the weight of the snow.
Also do you think it will happen again this year?
I'm not sure what this winter will bring. Seasonal forecasting isn't good enough to provide that much detail, unfortunately...
Currently it is forcasted for severe distruption over the next few days in england and wales
KushGamingYT yea it's been snowing all day in Manchester today
Did u have to go to school
I remember seeing angel dust for the first time falling like glitter from clear skies at dawn at -18c in Dalrymple (frost hollow), AYRSHIRE
Tons of memories:and
One day our old car got stuck- 10th December
Too many days off
Got trapped in Amsterdam. Went on the 13th due back on the 17th and didn’t get home till the 21st of December
If you remember the winter of 1963 you know this is insignificant to be honest December 2010 didn't stick in my memory as it didn't last long
December 2010 broke more temperature records and more snowfall records. I think its just you remember it better than it was. If you're in the SW then 2010 wasn't as bad as 1963 but just about everywhere else it was
Dick Holder same with 80 s was much worse ,forgotten what year but the snow and ice were around for 6 weeks real bad winter ,I remember police had to go round on horses .
@@XYZUNKNOWNactually it WAS BAD IN SW ENGLAND,I myself I was living by the Coast at the time and the daytime temperature never climbed above -11.3 Degrees Celsius and the raw winds made it feel way colder⚠️
I remember working at a roof in the freezing fog 1st week of december and the 4 inch nails were sticking to my fingers made it difficult to hit with my hammer
You shouldn't have even been attempting that in such cold weather
Liam dutton hmmmmmmm
Llanpwinchgogigich yeah im not welsh lol
I remember feeling Ice crystals in my throat, just seconds after leaving the front door, was a bit creepy
2009 we had server snow fall, windy through the year April was beautiful then we had the volcano eruption from Iceland, so for that year and 2010 it was hectic in many ways as I lost my Dad after a short sudden illness.. ow can I for get❤
I managed to build an igloo in the park using a plastic recycling box
Lol... I grew up in Central Pennsylvania in the USA... There you get ice on the inside of the windows even with central heating!! It is more to do with combination of condensation forming on the very cold window when it is really far below freezing outside & lots of high humidity inside from cooking, showeri g or just breathing!!
The small radiators didn't seem to manage to warm the bedrooms on the north side of my house that year. Now I know why! The coldest winter for 100 years!
Here on the Somerset Levels trying to soak my willow in a tank of frozen water, it wouldn't penetrate the willow very well to soften it as so cold and icy, trying to construct wicker baskets and coffins with ice cold willow was no fun. But boy it was a great Dec we hit - 12°c at night and - 6 tops on Christmas Day had 9-10" inches of snow in two falls, not able to get out of the road I live in let alone the village. In terms of snow fall only March 2018 comes close this century. Far better than the winters of 12/13-13/14 when it was very mild, stormy, wet and floods/roads shut for over 3 months. Let's have some more.
The most beautiful time ever my very first ever snowball fight. My first ever sniwman. My first ever white christmas. It was amazing and i just wanna go back
Wow I remember this
I live in NE england my steo dad couldeant stop the car due to the ice and crashed the car into the side of my house when watchin tv
I don't think that title really does the month justice. The CET value for December was the second coldest since records began in 1659!
We had lying snow for around week and finally we haven’t had a colder than average December since then.
December 2017 was average
November-March this year will be colder than average and snowier!
I worked on a retail park and the snow was cleared but left in piles at various points around the site! I remember the last pile of snow finally melting in March the following year! I do believe that global warming was re named climate change after 2010!
I've read that it wasn't so much the amount of snowfall, that it was when it started to thaw the real problems began, the temperatures began to dip again freezing the slush and water from the snow, turning the ground into an ice rink before it had a chance to go anywhere, then it didn't get above freezing for some considerable amount of time and the ice remained, only light flurries of snow fell after but it made for some very dangerous conditions, a lot of elderly and sick people died that year as a result
Some places had snow depths of 150cm/60 inches.
Just what I need for geography. Lol. Btw is anyone else watching this while their country is filled with deep snow? My stupid school never closes
Europe is facing a Polar Vortex, and the Pacific Northwest and The Southern And Northern Rockies and Great Lakes and The Northern Plains are facing Polar Vortex conditions.
xmas day that year it was -13c
Remember it well, I actually followed through as i trudged home, it was really cold with wet shit stook to my trousers
Living in a house without central heating was sheer hell. I had thick ice on the inside of the double glazed windows in my bedroom for about a week and woke to temperatures of about 3 or 4C. I never want to go through that again.
ice on the inside of windows was normal for those of us brought up before central heating became common in homes .
Get Central Heating installed then? No? #CommonSense lol 🤔🤔🤦🏻♂️
Swipe650 3c is warm weather in Canada lol
Johonan andrew gomes he's talking about the temperature inside his house!!! as outside it was double digits below...
even for inside. I open my windows at night and the temperature can fall below 3 degrees.
It was really bad i used to live in a Mobile park home in a village called Whelpley Hill in Chesham it was a lovely place to live but expensive and i did not have the money for the Oil heating that winter as it was £1500 each time to fill the tank , anyway so cold it got that my toilet literally froze indoors lol , luckily i had an electric heater so that saved my life or i would have froze as it was minus 21 degrees centigrade very scary winter
It is not pronounced Centigrade,the proper word is Celsius
@@stephensnell5707 lol 🤣 I stand corrected lol
Why, I remember nothing of winter 2010, but I remember the bitter winter of 1962/3 like it was yesterday - implying that 2010 was not a memorable winter.
Was it colder than the winter of 62/63? I remember 2010, but 62/63 was 4/5 years before I was born!! 😁👍
Bognor reached -1 To -13
Being a binman it's impossible to forget 😬🥶🥶🥶
2010 was just a really cold year
Agree! It started off unusually cold (even for January), and ended with the coldest December for over 100 years. Indeed winters' 09/10 and 10/11 remain the two coldest winters overall in the 21st century for the UK. This despite the 'Beast from the East' in Feb and March 2018. 17/18 winter wasn't as cold overall as the other two winters mentioned.
Can't see us getting a winter like that again
We had it the winter before too! 09/10 was the coldest winter in 31 years. The winter of 08/09 was very cold too especially in February. The in 2012/13 January was very snowy and March was the coldest since 1883.
We're getting a winter like this again, could surpass it.
MarchAnchoveh117 hopefully...
Anas A *guys, we’re always going to get snow every year, but big freezes may be uncommon, hopefully there might be a big freeze in 2018-19, they said it would last from November - February in 2018-19*
unknown that always exaggerate weather in the UK 😂
I remember my trampoline went flying
Mtb Hazza Mine hit a tree,thankfully it was mature though
Being a postie and still wearing my shorts
Well you are so dumb doing that,you do realise extreme cold will cause hypothermia which will kill a person instantly⚠️
WE have been not KNOWING
I was Brporn In December 2010 anyway lol
I’ll never forget it. Hated every minute of it, but I’d rather be in that December than this one. Snow over COVID any day. 🥶
It was very cold but dec 1981 was colder -20c in the west mids at night.... maybe -8 to -5 in the day and as in 2010 it ended just after xmas. then returned in jan in 82 most of you dont know this but the weather pattern tried to repeat it's self in jan 11 it failed other wise jan 11 would have been as cold.
Hey Robert grundy
Ha you should see what's about to hit in 2019 December it's gonna be -40 -30c with danger to life blizzards
Shaq2 Hah,that never happened
1981-82 was worse than this..colder and more snow but didn't last as long
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