How quickly we forget the inaccuracies of former weather and traffic conditions in decades past compared to today.
I watched the Big Snow of 82 last night, I remember it well, I was caught up in the first big storm when heading from the Midlands up to Newcastle upon Tyne, I was one of the last cars to cross the M62 before they closed it for 3 days, The A1M because of the long standing Co Durham road gritters dispute/strike was untreated and as the north side was blocked by snow drifts. I finished up on the heading south side of the dual carriage against oncoming traffic. I remember seeing the Police in what appeared to be a few inches of snow, when they were actually on the tops of cars etc prodding long rods down as they worked along the road to see what was under the banks of snow. That first storm I seem to remember killed 6 people who were stranded in their cars on the A66.
The forecast before I left home was light patchy snow.
