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.

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

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!

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 😁

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.

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

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.

Great Video - The town in Kent with cars is Sheerness

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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!

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

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

Great video Scott

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.

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

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

great video

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

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

This looks like the models for next week

I was born in Kent

we not had snow since Feb 2018 in South - grrrrr

Never going see a repeat of that this January ☹️

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. 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🎬🎬🎬🎬🎧👊🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄🀄

Hi I’m 202

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

It's about to happen again

February 1956 was way colder in Holland🤔