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Heavy snow disrupts travel in north-west England January 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM Heavy snow overnight meant runways had to close at Manchester and Liverpool airports, although they are now back open
Frequent heavy snow showers affect Eastern and Northern Scotland, Eastern England and also Central Southern England. County Durham received 29 cm (11.5 inches) of lying snow on the 23rd, whilst 4 cm (1.5 inches) was reported in Dover and Folkestone, Kent, on the 25th [5] and some minor snowfalls also affected the Midlands and the higher ground ...
Road users in England’s north were warned that up to 25cm of snow could hit parts of the network including the A66 Old Spittal, A628 Woodhead Pass and M62 at Windy Hill.
The January 1987 snowfall (also known as the Big Freeze of 1987) was a very heavy lake-effect type snow event that affected the United Kingdom, mainly the areas of East Anglia, South-East England and London between 11 and 14 January [2] and was the heaviest snowfall to fall in that part of the United Kingdom since the winter of 1981/82.
The most severe snowy weather began on 5 January in North West England and west Scotland with temperatures hitting a low of −17.6 °C (0.3 °F) in Greater Manchester, England. [3] The snow spread to Southern England on 6 January and by 7 January the United Kingdom was blanketed in snow, [2] which was captured by NASA's Terra satellite. [4]
An amber warning for snow and rare freezing rain covering most of Wales and central England, including the Midlands and the north-west cities of Liverpool and Manchester, is in place from 6pm on ...
The January 1995 United Kingdom Blizzard was a period of extremely heavy snowfall that affected Northern England from 25 to 26 January 1995. [5] The snow hit the major cities during the rush hour, earlier than expected, and brought chaos to the cities of Sheffield and Leeds, leaving thousands stranded overnight. [4]
A body was found in the search for a 75-year-old man missing in the River Conwy, as the heavy rainfall and thawed snow brought by Storm Bert put more than 400 areas in the UK at risk of flooding.