Gloucestershire's wildest weather
Updated Monday 20th September
Thanks for all your photos of snow and floods. I shall be putting them up over the next few days.
I hope you are enjoying looking at our wonderful archive footage. Don't forget the Wild Weather programmes from the 91Èȱ¬ Points West and 91Èȱ¬ Midlands Today teams at 7:30pm on Monday evening. Here's an easy way to see them on the iPlayer: Wild Weather of the West and Wild Weather of the Midlands
Keep the comments and photos flooding in! Cummings@bbc.co.uk
We're going to be exploring Gloucestershire's history of extreme weather.
To come over the next few days we'll be hearing about the Westgate floods of 1968, the record blistering heat in Cheltenham in 1990 and the ice storm winds at Westonbirt in 1940.
A meteorological expert has in our county, plus Les Leach in Frampton (a cameraman for 91Èȱ¬ Points West at the time) has very kindly supplied us with this wonderful footage, including floods in 1968, heavy snow in 1981 and more flooding in 1982.
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Hi, I'm Mark Cummings. Every day I explore all things Gloucestershire on my breakfast show. The stories, the people, the history, the news - the complete package of what makes the county tick. On the show, and on this blog, we share our knowledge, stories and experiences to celebrate life in Gloucestershire.
Comment number 1.
At 17th Sep 2010, YenRug wrote:Whilst Gloucester born, and now resident again, I was living in Ross-on-Wye in 1981 when we had the heavy snowfall. My memory is of the town, despite being reasonably sized and with major road links running nearby, actually was cut off for a week. Most roads in the two were impassable, though the local owner of a Bobcat digger (think he had one of the first ones in the country) pretty much went along every road and dug a channel out for people to walk along, once they'd managed to dig their way from their frontdoor to it. When the town's supermarkets started to run low on bread, not like nowadays when they're restocked daily and had to keep a small warehouse on site, they took their stock of flour and made fresh bread in their bakery. As an 11 year-old this was all great fun, with the schools shut and dragging sledges through the town to get food in, then taking them to the nearby slopes afterwards. I do have some photos, somewhere, which I'll have to dig out; one of the best was a huge icicle hanging off the roof of a single-storey shop, people would have had to duck if the pavements had been clear.
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At 20th Sep 2010, Fred Hart wrote:I'll be watching it this evening!
People who aren't in the 91Èȱ¬ Points West TV region will get a programme presented by Shefali Oza (the Midlands Today forecaster), and all the other 91Èȱ¬ TV regions in England will get their own variations.
I might have to spend tomorrow evening going through them all to find out about wild weather events elsewhere in the country!
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