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The October 2008 United Kingdom cold wave was a spell of unseasonable weather that affected the United Kingdom during the final week of October 2008. The event set new low October temperature records across areas in England, Scotland, and Wales and brought the first recorded October snowfall to some areas of the country in more than 70 years.
Weather of 2008 profiles the major worldwide storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2008. A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet , or a rainstorm where ground temperatures ...
A wind gust of 194 mph (312 km/h) was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008 but was discovered too late to be verified by the Met Office. [ 14 ] The highest wind speed in England was a wind gust of 125.4 mph recorded at The Needles , Isle of Wight , on 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice .
January 2010 was provisionally the coldest January since 1987 in the UK. [1] A persistent pattern of cold northerly and easterly winds brought cold, moist air to the United Kingdom with many snow showers, fronts and polar lows bringing snowy weather with it. The first snow fell on 17 December 2009, before a respite over the Christmas period. [2]
More snow is forecast across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and northern England overnight
The winter of 2009–2010 in Europe was unusually cold. Globally, unusual weather patterns brought cold, moist air from the north. Weather systems were undergoing cyclogenesis from North American storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and saw many parts of Europe experiencing heavy snowfall and record-low temperatures.
Met Office warns of ‘significant disruption’ to transport, power lines and phone network coverage
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