Hail started to fall in Brigg at 12.25pm today - perhaps with a few flakes of snow mixed in - but within 10 minutes it was all over.
We predict a heavy snow shower or two later, which would hardly be worth a mention on January 30 most years. But this has been a very mild winter.
Our headline relates to the famous 1960s TV programme fronted by the fittingly-named (Sir) David FROST.
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Those who are aged enough, like me, will remember late January, 1963. November and December, '62 and most of January were bitterly cold, but dry..(the only notable snow storm during that time occurred on (Dartmoor) the wind was from the east.
But the weather changed dramatically at the last week (circa 22nd) of January when air masses from the Arctic met moist air from the Atlantic..prolonged very heavy snow arrived..and it lasted for weeks...massive snow drifts were common and the depth of snow also subdued sound; everyday outside noise was muffled....those roads which hadn't been cleared became sandwich layers of compacted snow and ice.
It wasn't until Easter before the snow began to thaw...but the fields had been covered with snow for weeks ,the ground remained frozen - almost like a perma-frost, and run-off just couldn't permeate away..so lakes of flood water occupied any depressions in fields...it wasn't until sometime after Easter that such lakes disappeared from the landscape...
Another very snowy year was 1947...and, again, the snow didn't arrive until late January...
It was an eventful Spring....the Beatles emerged to national acclaim and us teenagers had to have a Beatle cut, black polo shirts, winkle-pickers and lapel-less suits...
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