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MARC recordA historical record of bizzards/major snow events in the British Isles, 1880-1989 / Richard Wild, Greg O'Hare, Robert Wilby.
| Title: | A historical record of bizzards/major snow events in the British Isles, 1880-1989 / Richard Wild, Greg O'Hare, Robert Wilby. |
| Author(s): | Wild, Richard, O'Hare, Greg, Wilby, Robert, |
| Date: | 1996. |
| In: | Weather. (1996.), Vol. 51(3) (1996) |
| Abstract: | Three case studies [18-19 January 1881, 18-20 February 1941 and 27-29 January 1978] are used to indicate causation and to illustrate how communications and transport were affected. Eighty-three blizzard events and 212 bizzard days were identified in the British Isles between 1880 and 1989. Of these 72 per cent originated as mid-Atlantic depressions and 22 per cent as polar lows to the north of Scotland. Heaviest snowfalls are related to warm fronts associated with slow-moving depressions rather than cold fronts. |
| Notes: | Weather. Vol. 51(3) :82-91 (1996). |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.5 -- Meteorology. 551.578.4 -- Ice needles, sleet, falling snow and graupel. 551.578.45 -- Snow storms. .000(410) -- British author. E9 -- Glaciology: meteorology and climatology. (410) -- Great Britain. |
| SPRI record no.: | 139150 |
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