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View Poll Results: Which city is more likely to go an entire winter with ZERO snowfall?
London 32 84.21%
Oklahoma City 6 15.79%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-17-2014, 10:22 AM
 
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Which city is more likely to go an entire winter with ZERO snowfall?


A) Oceanic London- London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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B) Continental/Schizophrenic Oklahoma City- Oklahoma City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 02-17-2014, 11:16 AM
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Location: Surrey/London
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Oklahoma City averages more snowy days and more snowfall.
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Old 02-17-2014, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Castlederp
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London.. snowless winters aren't all that rare. This winter being one of them
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Old 02-17-2014, 03:16 PM
 
Location: In transition
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London for snowless winters seem relatively common
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Old 02-17-2014, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Bremerhaven, NW Germany
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London easily, well this winter even larger parts of Southwestern and Western Germany did not receive any snow yet.
And the Netherlands as well as far as i can remember, except for the far north eastern corner around Groningen.
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Old 02-17-2014, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Yorkshire, England
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I'm probably one of the snowiest places in the continent of Europe this winter.
But then again, you always are...

As for the question, almost definitely Oklahoma City looking at those stats. If you asked which city got the most days with sleet / snow falling, then it would probably be much closer. Hampstead (the snowiest London site) has never recorded a calendar year (I can't get data per winter without working it out manually) with no snow falling at all - does anybody know if Oklahoma City has?

I'm curious too how long snow in Oklahoma City can actually last on the ground, and how long snowy spells can go on for. Nowhere in London gets much snow, but Hampstead has recorded 16 consecutive days of falling snow before, and prior to this winter had five consecutive years with snow lying on the ground for at least seven days at a time. I guess Hampstead's record of 63 days of snow cover in winter 1963 would beat Oklahoma City's record as well.

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Old 02-17-2014, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Northville, MI
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London is usually mild, rainy, and sloppy in winter with a couple sunny days. No extreme cold there.
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Old 02-17-2014, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Buxton UK
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It's not rainy in winter. As someone who lived there for only 12 years. I walked to school every day, hardly ever got rained on walking to 1.5 miles to and from school each day.

The answer to this question can be easily answered by checking snow fall statistics for these places. Both places average almost the same number of snow falling days per winter, but London slightly less, so I vote London, but in reality neither will record a winter with zero snowfall.
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Old 02-17-2014, 05:09 PM
 
Location: SE UK
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It's not rainy in winter. As someone who lived there for only 12 years. I walked to school every day, hardly ever got rained on walking to 1.5 miles to and from school each day.

The answer to this question can be easily answered by checking snow fall statistics for these places. Both places average almost the same number of snow falling days per winter, but London slightly less, so I vote London, but in reality neither will record a winter with zero snowfall.
I have known winters in London with no snowfall before, Historically in my lifetime its been quite common (particularly years between 1990 and 2007) and I think this winter will be another one, there has been 2 or 3 winters in a row with some snow before this one though (global warming?) lol, my kids didn't get to play in the snow at all for the first 8 and 6 years of their lives!
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Old 02-17-2014, 05:28 PM
 
Location: Glasgow, UK
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It's not rainy in winter. As someone who lived there for only 12 years. I walked to school every day, hardly ever got rained on walking to 1.5 miles to and from school each day.

The answer to this question can be easily answered by checking snow fall statistics for these places. Both places average almost the same number of snow falling days per winter, but London slightly less, so I vote London, but in reality neither will record a winter with zero snowfall.
London has had and will continue to have, winters with no lying snow. I'd be very surprised if London has had any lying snowfall this winter. I'd be surprised if even Aberdeen or Newcastle has had any lying snow so far this winter.
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