An exceptional month indeed. I ran a weather station in central Scotland at the time and was astonished by the volume of snow and the sheer length and depth of the cold spell. The whole month had lying snow - which piled over 60cm at one point. And December the 6th produced a 12 hour spell of heavy snow that crippled the roads infrasturcture of the central lowlands, with temperature plummeting below -18ºC on the following two nights and barely scraping above -10ºC by day.

we had snow Oct 28th 2008 which was a trio set of great cold snowy winters 2008,2009 and the finale 2010

Wish we could have a December like this again

Similarities to what we’re seeing now (Late Nov 2022) is quite interesting. Fingers crossed

18th December 2010 was EPIC for my neck in the woods (Central London). Heavy snow which accumulated to at least 8 inches in three hours with -7c! :)

That is one December that i will never forget in a hurry. What a bitterly Cold and Snowy month it was here in Ireland also. The night time Temperatures hit minus 20 in places and no more than minus 5 during the day. The snow that fell was unreal. Thank you for the historical videos Gavin i find them very interesting keep up your good work.

I remember too how cold that winter was in the Netherlands. Mainstream media does'nt report on this only focusing on warm records.

very interesting - love the cold winters

Hello Gav,

17 into the 18th was when a streamer set up from the west coast of wales, stretching south east towards Bristol & south east areas of there. Thought my area (20 miles south west of Bristol) might miss out but nope, that streamer drifted south & once it started snowing it didn't stop until early hours of the 18th.

I just thought I'd watch this!

Idk why but January 2010 was way colder for me. There was a week in Manchester where the temperatures were under -10

Dec 18th had a afternoon reading of -8 in Birmingham

I'm remember this month for all the wrong reasons. For me in Harwich we had weeks of very cold weather with numerous snow

If you've not done it yet do feb/mar 2018 beast from east

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 Gav to you and your family I hope you have a good one 👍 and a happy new year 🎉

I'm so gutted that we won't be seeing a white Christmas one again 😢 this year it looked so promising 😢 10 days ago.I Think I will have to go to siberia next Christmas for Christmas 🎄 😢 lol 👍 😆

We had snow Thunder in my area of Ireland on the night of the 28th of November 2010 which was a Friday night

At the end of November (just as this cold started) my Son came up to me as I left the house, he said- Dad it's going to snow at 6oclock, and a 6oclock it came down, and didn't stop for weeks! I often wonder where/who he got that information from, but he doesn't remember

I was on a Caribbean cruise and on the 18th of November my mother text me saying there was over a foot of snow fell overnight, then i got daily texts that it wouldn't stop snowing, i got home to Manchester airport no snow? got on the train to County Durham it got deeper and deeper and by the time i got to my hometown on the edge of the dales, we had 3ft of snow and it didn't stop until March, it hit -17.5 in my garden it was a crazy winter i loved it! we had drifts of over 10ft in my street iv never dug snow so much in my life, then the next 2yrs we had the same but not as long. roll on the snow!!!!