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Wet heavy snow is horrible and slippery and dangerous, that is what we usually get in UK as temperatures not low enough !! In Germany where i lived for several years, I was amazed that their snow was tiny powderlike bits as dry as a bone, which could be swept from the paths very easily. The temperatures did not rise above freezing so no ice formed. We had sunny days, more than in summer, this well below freezing lasted for usually 2 months before the thaw set in, and came at different times of the winter. but for decades it was always frozen until at earliest end of March. But have been told it is not so cold there now and winters not so long with not so much snow, in the north anyway. I miss the mild winters we used to have.
It depends where you live. October to April is the only time I've ever seen snow, although it might have snowed in may at some point
It snowed here in a may either last winter or the one before. My dad has stories of snow piles in the hedges in june of 1963. Not sure about september but if this september isn't the coldest and we've had one or two single figure days i'm sure its not impossible. Monday is looking like 9c max.
To OWENC I,m in north London, and last weekend was very warm, but suddenly the wind seems to have changed to northerly, and last night we had +5 as minimum , night before + 6, night before + 7, , so decreasing by 1 degree c each night, which is ominous as don't like the chilly cold. The wind makes it feel much colder than it is at the moment at 4.30 pm =+15, but should be warmer as had sun all day. Open countryside is always colder than in cities, of course. Except for last year, the previous 3 winters were much colder than usual and longer reaching into May, and starting in September. This year too was exceptionally cold in March, April and May. making the winters longer and summers shorter than I ever remember.
Well its been chilly here for around 3 weeks now. We haven't been above around 60f in ages. Today it is 55f and the dew point is 35 and it got down to 32/0c this morning and it was white everywhere. Tonight maybe not possibly a grass or a ground frost.
Yet the stories prevail from some credible sources. An editor from the National Geographic magazine called and inquired about Jim Brandenburg's story that it had snowed in every month in northern Minnesota. Our response still had to be a shaky "maybe." Weather stations are few and far between in northeast Minnesota, so it is certainly possible that flurries have fallen between the cracks.
As it stands right now the latest recorded measurable snow in Minnesota remains at 1.5 inches at Mizpah in Koochiching County on June 4, 1935 and the earliest documented snow in Minnesota is a trace that fell at the Duluth Airport on August 31, 1949.
The earliest snowfall on record in Boston, MA was July, 10, 1955 .
The latest snowfall on record in Boston, MA was May 10, 1977, I remember this one quite well, it was a very wet heavy snowfall. My daughter at the time was two years of age. All my friends were at my house when the power lines went due to a tree limb falling on them .
We suited her up got in my car, driving very carefully to the movie theater. That area had not been effected by any downed lines. We all went in the theater watched a good movie (Between the Lines - A Crime-Drama about Internal Affairs investigating crooked cops, I highly recommend it, it's a great movie).
How could there be snow in Boston in July when the record low for the entire month is 50 F? I know that snow can fall above 32 F, but not that far above 32!!!
Wet heavy snow is horrible and slippery and dangerous, that is what we usually get in UK as temperatures not low enough !! In Germany where i lived for several years, I was amazed that their snow was tiny powderlike bits as dry as a bone, which could be swept from the paths very easily. The temperatures did not rise above freezing so no ice formed. We had sunny days, more than in summer, this well below freezing lasted for usually 2 months before the thaw set in, and came at different times of the winter. but for decades it was always frozen until at earliest end of March. But have been told it is not so cold there now and winters not so long with not so much snow, in the north anyway. I miss the mild winters we used to have.
Nowhere in Germany has winters like that except perhaps high elevation locations in the south of the country. Certainly don't get wet snow here very often either. The past 3 winters have all produced powdery and drifting snow.
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