yeah me mothers mum had to burn the house down to keep warm then run off with the coal man, old gin bottle she was. god bless her.

I won't forget it. Three feet of snow and 15-foot drifts buried my entire town. Awesome whiteouts and sledging has never been better. Plus seeing ice packs flow down the Thames was surreal.

1987 was a cool wet summer. April did have a heatwave though, the warmest April in over 40 years.

@@pak8606 That's because that was my birthday month and the sun celebrated with me.

@@AlexAlex-lo7sx Actually, we did. I was working as a professional DJ at the time, 1974-1990, and I did a LOT of weddings. And they were hot and sultry. So let's see if you can name the year that kick-started the English wine industry by the hot summer?

Remember it well. Yes, the three situations are spot on.

You're spot on about the big freeze in January and the October hurricane. There was a lot of rain at times in the late spring and early summer but a short very warm or hot spell in early May and a lengthier,more substantial one around Wimbledon time. I started a new full time office job in the last week of the January,when the snowy conditions were still with us,and they soon started offering us Saturday overtime if we wanted it sometimes. On Mondays to Fridays we had to dress smartly with shirt and tie and no jeans for the chaps,but with the customer services desk at the front closed to the public at weekends we could wear casual clothes on those Saturday shifts,so as it could get very warm in that office some of us took to coming in in shorts on any Saturday when we were there and the temperature was on the high side. Some of the younger ladies often wore mini skirts or rather short ones,and they were permitted to wear shorts if they wanted to during the week. As I recall,there was a warm,dry spell in early September that year as well.

RP was a prerequisite then. Personally I love different accents and the many accents within the British Isles.

who r u comparing to now? lol

👏👏👏👏! Howdy ! How true! Once upon a time, people were educated and well-mannered, polite and cheerful, and school was school! I wish you health!!

@@gabrielionut8218Can’t argue with that. I remember that winter well…our exams were postponed as schools were closed for a fortnight. Great memories 😊

All that game began withem imitating T. Blair with his ecpressive hand movements...

2010 ish was pretty bad.

The winter of 2009/10 was colder over a prolonged period than 1986/87 and December 2010 was the coldest December on record.

@@CheesestringXX Apart from Cornwall/Devon Peninsula where it didn’t snow. We did have one in the 1990’s where villages on Bodmin Moor got cut off.

1990/91 and 1995/96 were fairly cold.

The next severe cold spell would not be until February 1991.

True though, can't strike you for telling the truth, or can they nowadays

They just love running those extreme scare ones,don't they?

"hundreds of secondary schools were closed": direct quote. Evidently some people didn't go to work, the usual nostalgia bias, everything was better in the good old days coming out.

nobody could commute by train so no that’s not accurate!

“police are warning people not to leave home.“ Direct quote.

@@serinadelmar6012 same as now then 😅

We still had to walk to school in one of the biggest freezes,but that was in 1979. I lost one of my shoes in a snowdrift that February and couldn't locate it until at least a fortnight later!

since when is the news not well-spoken?

@@EspritArkitekt listen to any local radio stations

I think you meant “hear”🤣🤣

aye?

I preferred "hear"ing it myself. 😂😂😂

I remember that winter as well

I wasn't born yet but the winter of 1962-63 was legendary. Older generations told me all about it when comparing it to our big freezes in the 80s,and the generation before them told us recollections of the 1947 one. The other extreme weather event they used to tell me a lot about their experiences of was the notorious Great London Smog of the early 50s/early 60s.

The sea actually froze in early 1963!

It wasn't the match of 1962/63 but I do remember January/February 1979 being a particularly cold and snowy one.

LOOOOOOOOL

I think the word is "Cissy".

that's what I called him too, but he still insisted he wasn't having the stock.

@@zeffsmith7099 😃😃😃😃😃

@@zeffsmith7099

And it’s people like you that cause the most problems in situations like this….going out for a gig is NOT life or death for god sake

@@hmmmmm2634 If the weather is bad, do you dodge work? Do you get paid if you do? Are you a trained and experienced paramedic? Do you carry a First Responders kit at all times? Do you have internal and rooftop strobes fitted to your car/van, legally? Do you carry two types of fire extinguishers, large size? Do you carry two warning triangles? Do you carry tripod mounted strobe lights to place in the road? Do you carry, in the weather above, a snow shovel, wear the proper clothes and footwear for the conditions? Do you carry blankets and foil thermal blankets? Do you carry shake and throw Snap lights in Red, yellow and green? Are you an experienced mountaineer, who was a member of an MRT, and was the medic for that Team? Do you carry a Thermos flask, plus extra water and a water heater, plus extra cups? I fully expect the answers to all of those questions is NO! You are not even a trained First Aider, don't carry a first aid kit, as required by law, don't carry a warning triangle, and certainly ever carry spare Hi-Viz for any victims. By the way, GOD is capital letters. The phrase "For GOD'S sake"! is correctly typed as I have it here. I have driven ambulances in blizzard and deep snow conditions, on Blues and Two's. Don't judge others by your own miserable townies standards, scared to go out in a shower of rain. And you, clearly, have never worked self-employed. WTF, do you think PROFESSIONAL means? Cretinous ORC.

@@hmmmmm2634You must be a lot of fun at parties.

That's the consolation you need in those circumstances!

How brexit going Mr Gammon? 😂😂😂

Fox News hold my beer😂😂😂

What a ridiculous comment.

Me too!! Especially in today's climate. And we thought we had it bad in the 80s?!

So reporting severe weather conditions is 'lefty propaganda' 😅

Yes but they have designed infrastructure to cope, UK doesn't

UK always cuts costs to the bone and hopes nothing goes wrong!

Disgraceful ! Not even married, no wonder the country went to the dogs 😯

@@stuarthall2180 😂

They were huge! I was tiny but I still remember this, the biggest snowdrifts ever, it was easy to make an igloo inside an hour, brilliant! I’m glad you got back eventually and hope you’re still together.

I have to say that where once I found I could leave the TV on one of the main rolling news channels,mostly BBC News,in the last seven or eight years it almost always seems to be a matter of time before something comes on that makes me think "oh,sod off!" and change the channel to get away from them. On commercial news channels that's more often than not certain adverts. I suppose it ensures that I regularly view news coverage from a minimum of five different channels,some more than others.

technically it was nine months later!

Correct. We seemed to get one snowless winter every four years (1979-80,1983-84,1987-88),but from 1988 onwards the winter temperatures suddenly moved a grade warmer. The weather also became drier on the whole,causing many small rivers,brooks and streams to dry up completely at times,certainly in the south,in the 90s. It wasn't until the autumn of 2000 that we seemed to get a return to the heavy rainfall and regular flooding that has become a familiar feature of more recent times. A Scot did dispute that,based on his experience in his part of our country,in a previous online discussion,but that was what was going on down here.

I went arce over tit on my bicycle riding in the snow then I hit the road , with no snow! That’s when I learned what black ice was, slid into a snow drift

What were you doing with I a lighter? at such a young age?

@@johnchild61 defrosting a snowman?

Section 29J Sweedie We still get it delivered in glass bottles plastic kills the earth u know

Believe it , I used to help the milk man , proper glass bottles .

They had to stop it eventually because the modern yob liked to break too many bottles . This wasn't a problem at all till the 1980s.

Yes. Glass bottles that were renewable. Sterilised and reused, again and again. They were also delivered to the doorstep, in an electric vehicle.

I was a milk boy delivering milk before going to school. I started at 4 in the morning. I think I started in 1980, what you called ‘Olden days’🤣. It’s was a great job as a child and we delivered other things such as orange juice and the job gave me a independent income. Today, I’d be reported to social services for my Jamaican parents instilling in a work ethic in me. I later graduated to a paper round and I recall when Carl Bridgewater RIP was killed delivering papers. One people

Gordon Taylor yes all 1987 uploaded in 2 parts

johnchild61 : Thank you for that information; two sadly missed newscasters

Yes to see Carol Barnes in silky top and fluffy hair.

I was 22 and living in Watford and remember it well. I crashed a car in it when the brakes froze in and failed!

Ben Conway that was only for a couple wks 81 82 went on for 3 months

yes minus 18 in Midlands!! it went on from Dec til early March and had snow on October 28th 2009. I saw my only white christmas 2010

Yea, apparently December 2010 was the coldest December for a century! Global warming means we don't get really cold snaps for as long as we used to.....but they do still happen!

We already know that global warming is taking place but they can't stop themselves laying the doomsday cult stuff on with a shovel on every report,can they?

The Blue Tits used to peck off the foil bottle caps and drink the cream too!

@@Blagger3000 Then the cat would take over .

Funnily enough,it was in that late 80s era that concerns about climate change began to get into the mainstream. Leaded petrol was in the process of being phased out,the hole in the ozone layer entered public discourse,people were becoming more concerned by pollution (even if Tom Lehrer had already written a song about it many years previously) and advertisers started to market some products to a perceived "green" demographic. The Ecology Party,of which my physics teacher at school was a member,renamed itself the Green Party.

Get help...soon 😂

Heaven knows some were miserable now!

easy drive happier times

Absolutely right!

Oh shut up all of you with you cry baby snow flake idiots.

Alm crap and all that.

there is no comparison between 60s winter and the 80s winters ...

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