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It isn't that unusual for Scotland to record milder temperatures than southern England in winter - particularly when the south is under a continental high pressure system which doesn't stretch to Scotland and northern England. So I wouldn't call this "impossible" either.
It is very unusual for the Isles of Scilly to be colder than Scotland,( I was only using Edinburgh as an example), I'm pretty sure it hasn't happened since as the Scillies are generally frost free most winters & that temperature in 1987 is the record low for there...
15cm in London in winter seems only extreme or "impossible" if you're about 7 years old or you have long-term memory issues....February 1991, January 1987, December 1981, December 1962, February 1947....all recorded comparable or greater amounts.
Even the tornado event isn't that amazing given that tornadoes are actually very common in the UK (according to some the highest frequency relative to its land area), although they are rarely big enough or seldom hit urban areas like in the US Midwest, so that when they do, the media gets all excited.
It isn't that unusual for Scotland to record milder temperatures than southern England in winter - particularly when the south is under a continental high pressure system which doesn't stretch to Scotland and northern England. So I wouldn't call this "impossible" either.
Plus when the UK gets a tornado, the quality of housing construction is generally better, so that homes stand up better. My brother is working in construction in Ireland right now and explained to me the higher quality and standards of construction there.
15cm in London in winter seems only extreme or "impossible" if you're about 7 years old or you have long-term memory issues....February 1991, January 1987, December 1981, December 1962, February 1947....all recorded comparable or greater amounts.
Even the tornado event isn't that amazing given that tornadoes are actually very common in the UK (according to some the highest frequency relative to its land area), although they are rarely big enough or seldom hit urban areas like in the US Midwest, so that when they do, the media gets all excited.
With the exception of 1947, those years had 15-20cm of snow in the suburbs (the maximum snow depth for the 62/63 winter in Kew was 15cm). Feb 2009 had that much fall right in the centre of London. 60cm fell to the south in the Surrey Hills, which is pretty much unheard of.
I said that tornadoes aren't that rare in reality, just in the imagination of the general public.
The extended warm spell of March 2012 in the US, a few places had lows that were higher than previous record highs, and temperatures typical of July. A warm spell is not rare in March, but one of that length and magnitude is.
I to had the same thought with the March 2012 heat wave. In Moncton New Brunswick for the old record high of the month it was 18C. In this March on one day the temperature went up to 26C. I remember that Nova Scotia had even hotter temperatures.
Sadly, truly dramatical weather is very rare here, probably not much worth mentioning.
Maybe a few things:
- A F4 tornado in 1934 which caused much damage, the only proven F4 level tornado ever recorded in Finland, and possibly the only one causing direct fatalities.
- A supercell thunderstorm creating simultaneous F2 level tornadoes in 2004. No casualties, but widespread destruction.
- The winter of 2008-2009. 9 days of snow cover during the whole winter in the south. Quite spectacular for 60N with an average of 100 days snow lying.
The Russian heat wave of 2010 was for that region a completely once in a lifetime event.
The tornado that struck in Birmingham (UK) in 2005 was also quite spectacular as it also happened in a built up area & caused lots of damage & injuries...
Here probably the December 26, 1999 windstorm, with gusts up to 173 km/h (107 mph).
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- The winter of 2008-2009. 9 days of snow cover during the whole winter in the south. Quite spectacular for 60N with an average of 100 days snow lying.
Strange, is it only the longest stretch with continuous snow cover? The same winter over here had 17 days of snow cover, with 9 days of continuous cover at most.
How about the horrendous rains and flooding in Atlanta back in 2008? Meteorologists here called it a "thousand-year event."
Some isolated areas west of the city received in excess of TWENTY INCHES of rain over a 48-hour period.
Gosh yes, I was here for that...lol. Happened in Sept of '09 actually, and we had six days of rain, with the big kahuna coming on the last day. At my house, we had 5 inches come down between 2 and 5 am, and had a break to about 2 in the afternoon, during which another 4 inches came down in about two hours. It was a DELUGE. The water was flowing in a solid sheet of water across my yard, and my driveway was a river I thought it was gonna be Noah's Flood part II...lol.
Fun times....fun times...
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The water was flowing in a solid sheet of water across my yard, and my driveway was a river 
I thought it was gonna be Noah's Flood part II...lol. 
