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Weather : past adverse weather in Birmingham

Alf said:
Come on someone must know about the storms of 1947 :lol:
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Remember it well. Snow over a foot deep. No school. Played for days in the back yard of the Perry Barr police station where my dad was the resident inspector. Made a super slide, very icy, made all the bobbies nervous.
 
mw0njm. said:
i remember the blizard in 1981 i was on nights and had to go out to breakdowns snow related. trying to dig and drag cars out of drifts at the nec some people left there windows open a bit and the car was full of fine snow inside.:(
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At least the diesel waxing problem had been solved by then introducing winter grade diesel which changed the cold plugging point (waxing/freezing) Unlike the winter of 62/63 when we spent weeks going out to HGV’s to bypass chassis mounted fuel filters.
 
Remember heading along the #28 route which wasn’t running in the 1960s, walking all the way from Kingstanding to Marsh Hill. The worst stretch was up Bleak Hill. Boots were inadequate, once snow melted on them, they drenched the boots. Couldn’t put them on the radiator at school to dry as they cracked the leather and shrank. At home we used to put newspaper in them to dry them out. But invariably they weren’t dry the next day so it meant putting on wet footwear again. Viv.
 
The serious side of adverse weather. Dreadful conditions in the winter of 1977. Remember how treacherous the entrances to underpasses could be until gritted ? Might have been safer to cross the road. In the ‘region’ snow up to 8ft !

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And the humorous side. Viv

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Friday 28th June 1968 - A Tornado hit Barnes Hill, Weoley Castle, parts of Harborne. It took the roofs off many houses and demolished the brick pillar outside the old California Inn on Barnes Hill.
 

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From the Birmingham Gazette July 1923.

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“The highest reliably recorded temperature in Birmingham (using modern Met Office data for the wider Birmingham/West Midlands area) is: ≈ 37.4 °C, which is about 99.3 °F
This occurred during the exceptional UK heatwave of July 2022 United Kingdom heatwave.”
 
Vivienne14 said:
Remember heading along the #28 route which wasn’t running in the 1960s, walking all the way from Kingstanding to Marsh Hill. The worst stretch was up Bleak Hill. Boots were inadequate, once snow melted on them, they drenched the boots. Couldn’t put them on the radiator at school to dry as they cracked the leather and shrank. At home we used to put newspaper in them to dry them out. But invariably they weren’t dry the next day so it meant putting on wet footwear again. Viv.
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Viv could you imagine them doing that tofay ?
 
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