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Observing once‐in‐a‐lifetime weather: the winter of 1981–1982 in Tenbury Wells
Author(s) -
Sholl Alan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.3711
Subject(s) - snow , period (music) , environmental science , climatology , meteorology , cold weather , clearing , severe weather , geography , storm , geology , physics , finance , acoustics , economics
The severe winter weather that prevailed during the period between 7 December 1981 and 18 January 1982 was truly a once‐in‐a‐lifetime experience. During this six‐week period, two episodes of heavy snowfall were followed by clearing skies and exceptionally low temperatures, both by day and by night. This account reports the author's recollections of observing daily weather conditions in rural Worcestershire during this memorable winter.