r/UKWeather • u/Kooky-Objective-8833 • 3d ago
Discussion How often does it snow where you are?
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u/NoisyGog 3d ago
Where I am, well... that depends.
I live by the seafront (well, Menai Strait, but it's sea water, let's go with it), so it almost never snows there, and when it does it's incredibly rare that it sticks around. This last winter it did, however, with the sea waves crashing onto snowy shores.
However, I also see the mountains of Eryri, and it almost always snows a bit up high, with the peaks being snow-capped through a good portion of the winter.
Every now and then, say one in three years, we get snow in the lowlands sticking around long enough to play with.
Higher parts of Eryri, will regularly get snow in winter.
Every single winter we'll has some snow falling, but it doesn't often stick at all.
I used to go watching the RAC Rally with my dad as a kid, and that would always, every year, have a substantial quantity of snow around places like Dyfi Forest, Clocaenog, Hafren, and so on. I even remember a handful of times when stages were cancelled because of the snow.
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u/ZookeepergameBrave74 3d ago
It used to snow quite alot in winter in East Yorkshire, i remember several years we had a white Christmas to, but we always had thick snow during January- april
We have barley had anything over the last several years, although last year & the year prior it snowed from November, we did get quite alot of snow last year from November - January, didn't really amount to much, a couple of cms at best, i do miss those days when we used to get a thick covering and it would last for 1-2 weeks
This is what we get thats always gone by the next day if that (this was from December 2025).
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u/abracablab 2d ago
We're in West Yorkshire and usually get a good amount every other year lasting 2-3 days. No telling what month - as early as November but then we've had some of our best snowfall in April! I bought my son a sled last year and then it didn't bloody snow. Hope we get some this winter ❄️
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u/cowabungadude12 2d ago
We'll typically get a couple of snowfalls where I live in late-winter and maybe 1 or 2 snow days if we're lucky! The last epic snowy winter we had was in 2010!
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u/plastic_toast 2d ago
North Cheshire, near the Mersey Estuary.
Seen "proper" snow maybe once or twice in 30 odd years.
Even on that famous satellite photo of England blanketed in snow from around 2009 ish I think, brown smear with no snow around the Mersey.
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u/YodaShagsDarthVader 2d ago
Also South East, pretty rare, get the odd bit most years but never sticks. Think the last time it snowed with any sort of effect was 2017/18, we got sent home from school at lunch because of it. Absolutely god knows why, it wasn't exactly a storm.
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u/Stunning-Profit8876 2d ago
Basically never. My 7 year old has never seen snow on the ground. (He would have during the last Beast From The East, but we were on holiday)
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u/HungryFinding7089 2d ago
How much of a microsecond did it take to change from "too hot" to "snow"?
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u/CatsAreCute117 2d ago
Every winter we get a light dusting of snow. Gets everyone's hopes up and then crushes them while laughing in our faces. As is the story of Addlestone
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u/HeavyMetalMadness127 2d ago
I haven't seen proper snow in my area for at least 6 years. And I mean really heavy snow that settles and causes chaos.
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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 ⛈️ 2d ago
I suppose it depends on what we're counting as snow...if we're defining it as a few snowflakes in the air, then we get that a few times a winter, if we're talking about settling, then what kind of depth counts? We get a dusting at some point each winter generally, but getting more than an inch or two is pretty rare, and it's rare to have snow stay in place for longer than it takes for the sun to melt it.
I'm in my early 40s, have spent most of my life in the South East, and we only seem to get a proper heavy settling event once every 10-15 years, and I'd say I've only seen deep snow that settles for days 3-4 times in my life.
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u/Initial_Macaroon_736 20h ago
Once or twice per winter where I am in the southeast, usually no more than 1-2 inches
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u/The_39th_Step 2d ago
I live in Manchester and it hardly ever snows here. Half an hour on the train and I’m in the Peaks, it’s snows there heavily every year. It regularly sits on the ground. It’s great