Historic Weather - January 1987

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January 1987 was a winter month that was made famous for it's extreme cold wave. It is believed to be the coldest spell of weather of the 20th century, and for some, the coldest since the mid-1700s! Find out what caused it in this historic video.
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  • @wishawweather5421
    @wishawweather54215 жыл бұрын

    We had a permanent snow dangler through the forth/clyde valley during that spell (the easterly stretch from denmark to the firth of forth is the longest sea track over the north sea). This produces a fantastic lake effect snowfall when circumstances are perfect. My home town of Motherwell had over 1 meter of snow lying, and was completely cut off for several days. Shops completely ran out of fresh food supplies. It was the deepest snowfall I've ever seen here... I've been recording the weather here since the early 1980's.

  • @mickdunne981
    @mickdunne9813 жыл бұрын

    I will never forget January 87 the snow that fell here in Ireland was unreal over 40cm fell in one day.We got a furter 20 to 30cm through jan.It was unreal

  • @fegstachops6746
    @fegstachops67465 жыл бұрын

    13 years old with a bunch of mates all of school for the best part of two weeks , sledging, snowball fights and building massive igloos. Probably some of of my favourite times 😁

  • @invicta1015
    @invicta10155 жыл бұрын

    I was fortunate or most would say unfortunate enough to have been right in the sweet for this. This was an event I will never forget. Not forgetting back then, you weren’t quite as aware of the current weather patterns as we are now. I was taking horse riding lessons in leysdown on the isle of Sheppy on Sunday the 11th jan. The skies turned very dark around 2/3pm, then all hell was let loose. Over the next 24hrs it dumped 3ft of snow not including drifts. But probably the most memorable feature of this was that patchy snow was still in the hedgerows in early April.

  • @michaeldunne7931
    @michaeldunne79317 жыл бұрын

    Hi Scott Mick is my name and boy the Severe cold spell of january 87 is one I will never forget. I'm from Ireland and well over a foot of snow fell in many parts in the east and midland regions of Ireland. I remember thick ice had formed on the windows of my dad's house. Keep up the good work.

  • @ScottRichards10

    @ScottRichards10

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cheers Mick. Seems like it was a very severe month for you guys as well, by the sounds of that. :)

  • @richardtristram6109
    @richardtristram6109 Жыл бұрын

    I was 10 during this. The field at the back of the house, it was upto our waists. We had to tunnel through a glacier half a mile thick to get to the school entrance, which wouldn't dream of closing, and get caned into an early grave if we were so much as 2 minutes late!

  • @leejohnson3209
    @leejohnson32097 жыл бұрын

    I was 7 and spent the days sledging down the hill near my house. I had great fun.

  • @theweatherlog
    @theweatherlog4 жыл бұрын

    Great Video - The town in Kent with cars is Sheerness

  • @townhillboy.8648

    @townhillboy.8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nobody gives a fuck.

  • @raymondskinner9508
    @raymondskinner95087 ай бұрын

    I recorded my 2 coldest days, -7c and my coldest night -12c pretty parky for a southeast coastal town + the bigges icicles i have seen-over 4ft long!

  • @BarneyLeith
    @BarneyLeith3 жыл бұрын

    My family and I were living in East Kent at that time in the village of Shepherdswell, not far from Dover. We were well and truly snowed in!

  • @Dextamartijn
    @Dextamartijn5 ай бұрын

    I remember this winter I would have been 9 years old. There were snow drifts up to the roof of our barn.

  • @johnb6723
    @johnb67233 жыл бұрын

    Caldecott is in Rutland, not Leicestershire, except in terms of the police department which is Leicestershire Police. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott,_Rutland

  • @paulkenney4021
    @paulkenney40214 ай бұрын

    Thanks , very interesting . As a person who hates snow I hope this never happens again to this degree

  • @ScottRichards10

    @ScottRichards10

    4 ай бұрын

    Appreciate it, thanks!

  • @fluterific00
    @fluterific006 жыл бұрын

    we had 2 weeks of spring break that year! 1 week was sheduled 1 week was not. This was in the US in Kansas.

  • @TheMarkpj
    @TheMarkpj8 жыл бұрын

    Hi - the Kent town you show is Sheerness (on the Isle of Sheppey). The road sign also looks like Sheppey (the one to the left I think says Leysdown). This sign would have been near the road which leaves the island. Great video.

  • @ScottRichards10

    @ScottRichards10

    8 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mark :)

  • @lucd.2826
    @lucd.28267 жыл бұрын

    Hi, nice video I remember january 85 86 87 were sooo cold in France, maybe saw one or two as cold winters since those years

  • @beetleything1864
    @beetleything18646 жыл бұрын

    Lived in a flat above a shop. The toilet was near the front door with 3 outside walls. Well it froze !!! We had no heating except a gas fire in the living room and the bedrooms upstairs below the uninsulated roof! It was fucking freezing.

  • @softshallow7435
    @softshallow74353 жыл бұрын

    It lasted about 3 days lying snow. Then went mild.

  • @tropicalhurricane1136
    @tropicalhurricane11369 жыл бұрын

    Great video Scott! It was an amazing month! :D

  • @ScottRichards10

    @ScottRichards10

    9 жыл бұрын

    Cheers! :)

  • @richardemra971
    @richardemra9712 жыл бұрын

    I remember walking along the tops of deep snowdrifts in rural Northamptonshire that month!

  • @threelions2452
    @threelions24527 жыл бұрын

    Happy days , it will happen again , it's just a matter of when !

  • @chelseabill1237

    @chelseabill1237

    5 жыл бұрын

    Three Lions it has

  • @chelseabill1237

    @chelseabill1237

    5 жыл бұрын

    Feb 2018 and March 2018 bitter temperatures 1 meter drifts

  • @dannyhtheretrogamingmaster9548
    @dannyhtheretrogamingmaster95487 жыл бұрын

    I remember playing in the snow in this weather event when I was little. It was great. I have a suggestion how about covering the great storm of 1987 and maybe the 1990 Burns Day storm?

  • @Rogue66669
    @Rogue666696 жыл бұрын

    This looks like the models for next week

  • @farmerstephen
    @farmerstephen3 жыл бұрын

    That snow near the road sign was pushed there by a snow plough you can see it’s not that deep.

  • @mickdunne981
    @mickdunne9812 жыл бұрын

    Great video Scott

  • @ScottRichards10

    @ScottRichards10

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mick! 👍

  • @ebdoneggs244
    @ebdoneggs2444 жыл бұрын

    great video

  • @townhillboy.8648

    @townhillboy.8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @bt-tq8bg
    @bt-tq8bg6 жыл бұрын

    I was born in Kent

  • @ebdoneggs244
    @ebdoneggs2444 жыл бұрын

    we not had snow since Feb 2018 in South - grrrrr

  • @townhillboy.8648

    @townhillboy.8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    Got any snow now. Nah thought not. Prick.

  • @louisbeerreviews8964

    @louisbeerreviews8964

    11 ай бұрын

    We did get snow in Wiltshire in 2018 I remember that day

  • @jackomanacoman5627
    @jackomanacoman56276 жыл бұрын

    It's about to happen again

  • @Rogue66669

    @Rogue66669

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jackomanacoman this chart looks very similar to the charts to what's to come next week

  • @molemole666mole9
    @molemole666mole96 жыл бұрын

    Never going see a repeat of that this January ☹️

  • @mrskybluejoannegreen1127

    @mrskybluejoannegreen1127

    6 жыл бұрын

    molemole666 mole ha

  • @Rogue66669

    @Rogue66669

    6 жыл бұрын

    Might see a repeat this week

  • @paulkenney4021

    @paulkenney4021

    4 ай бұрын

    Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sagayapanneer9052
    @sagayapanneer90522 жыл бұрын

    Fortunately we don't snow here in jamaica, the weather hot and rough, with particulate matter of 2.5 micrograms, polluted air high nitrogen and sulpher content. 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🎬🎬🎬🎬🎧👊🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄

  • @peterwright3595
    @peterwright35954 жыл бұрын

    I remember it well I was working in the car industry I was riding a push bike bloody bitter cold loads of snow

  • @stonecold3132
    @stonecold31322 жыл бұрын

    Hi I’m 202

  • @MeesterJ
    @MeesterJ4 жыл бұрын

    February 1956 was way colder in Holland🤔

  • @louisbeerreviews8964

    @louisbeerreviews8964

    11 ай бұрын

    It’s the Netherlands

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