UK Snow News and Weather, 1990-1991, BBC, ITV

[@kino-cathedral]

We have this because someone kindly used their VCR to tape it, then wait 30 years and upload it to KZbin. Thank you, archiver

[@paulkenney700]

agree

[@tyronerodgers]

Wow!!!! Feb 9th 1991!!!! Remember it so well!!! We had the day off school!!!

[@angelacooper2661]

I was a fresh-faced young adult back then in my early twenties and having to brave the elements and go to work! Remember this era well.

[@gaggymott9159]

COME BACK MOIRA STUART!!! In the days when one could understand spoken English......In 2019, it's all jokes, wise-cracks and false sincerity

[@hazardous1990]

I agree completely.

[@paulkenney700]

YES!!!! Especially 100 days shit

[@williamcole9040]

Our are SO correct. Well put !

[@what-uc]

I don't like over-dramatic, almost-shouting delivery. She was one of the worst for it. Sorry.

[@gaggymott9159]

@@what-uc Don't apologise.....We all have likes and dislikes. The world would be very boring otherwise 👍

[@pauljk4280]

great footage . I felt the blizzard of 1990 was forgotten

[@Drobium77]

i live in North Warwickshire , the worst area hit in the Midlands blizzard of 8th dec 1990, we had 2 and a half feet of snow fall unforecast overnight, we had no power for 4 days and no water for 3 days, luckily the gas stayed on. some of the drifts went up to the eaves of the roof! The snowdrifts lasted for weeks afterwards, and had just melted when the big freeze of 1991 happened

[@paulkenney700]

@@Drobium77 yep we had to use snow to put in toilet cistern. I live Coalville - Leicestershire and actually sat up from 2am to watch it . A real snow fan then and still now !

[@louiseowusu246]

I remember that. I lived in Notts at the time. I remember telling my mum that we needed to go tp the supermarket the night before, because they mentioned it on the news (She was there). We also had guests. She said 'this won't happen'. Anyway, we went to bed, and I got up in the night to get water, and the sky was that orange colour. I told her to look outside the window and she was horrified. Later in the day I had to keep walking back to the shops to buy food and candles....I got a Mars Bar and a cold as a reward.

[@arenjay3278]

My Dad and I went out driving in this storm, we had the roads to ourselves, it was glorious. People asked us how we could drive until we told them we were from Canada and this wasn't bad at all.

[@grindle1234]

IVE TURNED INTO MY NAN WORRYING ABOUT THE CANDLES CATCHING FIRE TO THE NET CURTAINS

[@jc-d6179]

Drove from Oxford to Cambridge that night. Took 5 hours. Would have beem longer except for the fantastic snow performance of my citroen bx!

[@JakeGreen86]

Great to see snow don't know what that is these days.

[@indyjones1135]

Those were the days my friends.

[@yougottabejokingright2879]

great footage - I loved this winter so much and this year

[@nickda1]

me to back when winter was winter and we didn't grind to a halt when only a centimetre of snow fell had to be really bad before we did that

[@user-il1nj7gu1c]

ThaT man who put them 2 candles 🕯️ next to his net curtains has never been seen again!

[@paulkenney700]

I remember this so well and also so glad there is footage , thank you. Christmas day 1990 severe gales hit UK with thunder and lightning in Midlands and tornadoes in south

[@ManjitSingh-tf1bz]

I remember this as child ...x

[@adamcormie3362]

The winters back then were freezing, nothing like the constant mild we have now. But how I miss them lol

[@കമലദളം-ട8ഷ]

Much better than Covid 19

[@俞嘉琳-x6c]

I saw my first snow fall on Eastbourne beach, which was unforgetablely beautiful .❄❄❄

[@LIVERNIL723]

Wow, Sue Carpenter was ahead of her time and should have gone into Modelling! ;-) Perfect Wife ;-)

[@jivebunny3765]

I lived on the Essex/Herts border in 1990, but I don't remember the 1990 winter being bad. I was 15. I remember the snow in 1987, and that the 1993 winter was freezing.

[@pak8606]

09:17 Cheltenham racecourse. Only four months earlier Cheltenham set the UK record temperature at that time, with 37.1C on 3 August 1990.

[@Freshy009]

And here we are again, February 2018. Entire country has come to a standstill, barely 3 inches of snow, and in most places NO SNOW!

[@jackisyarlar1208]

I live in Kent and I can tell u that we got at least 7 inches and lots of blizzards!

[@SouthRicardo]

Yeah, that's how we are in this country, we don't know how to handle a situation. Nowadays, we get two inches of snow and everything goes mad.

[@kellyfinch5257]

8:47 what a prune! YES IT WAS!!!!! forecasted one week before ........................sleet? snow

[@GM-yq5wk]

I was snowed in at George Elliot Hosp Nuneaton UK...just given birth on the 6th December xxx

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

I did ice skating was fun and dangerous a bit on your own.

[@MarkAtkin]

I was looking at videos of this week's snow. This one is very interesting, but 30 years too late.

[@scottbrookes5434]

It's all ok. He's got spot lamps and big glasses.

[@paulmcmc4005]

4:05 John Kettley sounds like John Peel on helium (bless him, John would laugh at that as well so don’t start at me lol)

[@matthewgaskin4215]

1991 that wasn't yesterday or day before I was a about 11 years old maura stewart she looked like Angel one of favour news reader

[@grahamwishart4832]

Car at 13.45 doing 90-100mph...crazy people!

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

The weather

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

Hello!

[@MultiVince95]

Brilliant

[@darrenangel461]

Is it me or the earlier the years the better we coped !.

[@bennyboypolo]

7:08 Sorry I just creased up... who was he looking at when he said that :D

[@julianfogarty2243]

I remember both. I was 21 and Coventry got hit heavily in both events. I think December 90 was worse than Feb 91.

[@JakeGreen86]

not even 4wd vehicles can make much progress.. Especially when they are driven by muppets.

[@Demun1649]

Army tracked APC's will do the job. But there seems to be a total inability to do joined-up adult thinking in Britain.

[@adedamolaadeleke1316]

This is so slippery

[@kino-cathedral]

Wait, was British Rail just one company that operated every single train?

[@kwesiidun8512]

Section 29J Sweedie - "British Rail" was the general brand of the state-owned railway network in this country from 1965 until about 1999. It underwent privitisation from 1993 until about 1999.

[@kino-cathedral]

Was it beloved?

[@kwesiidun8512]

@@kino-cathedral - I was born in 1991 so I can't really remember. I traveled by train a lot from my early years on, so I can vaguely remember the later years of British Rail, and I'm from Wales and we were one of the last parts of the United Kingdom to get rail privitisation, but I can't remember if it was necessarily loved or not. Labour have made various promises to renationalise the railway network if they ever get back into power, but it's a more popular policy amongst younger people like myself who either can't remember British Rail that well or weren't alive during its time. I'm a Conservative Party supporter, but I still think it might be cool to see the railways nationalised again. The trains in this country are useless. There are often delays and it's rare to have routes that are 100% national. For example, where I'm from (Swansea in Wales), the only other places you can get to directly by train are Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven further west in Wales, Cardiff, London and Manchester (and, of course, all the places in-between those destinations). You can't go from here to, say, Glasgow or Norwich directly. To go to Glasgow from here, you'd have to go from here to Manchester and then get a second train from there to Glasgow. And to get to Norwich, I'd have to go from here to probably Bristol Parkway, then Bristol Parkway to Sheffield and then Sheffield to Norwich. Or here to Cardiff, then Cardiff to Nottingham and then Nottingham to Norwich. It's so annoying!

[@martinwebb5588]

Empty Egg Box ... Yep, British rail was the nationalised train company, 100% state owned and operated everywhere across the nation, and unlike todays disastrous railway, it was affordable and really quiet reliable. Then it was privatised and broken up and has led to what we have today, an unreliable splintered rail service that is unreliable and very expensive.

[@martinwebb5588]

@@kino-cathedral ... Was it beloved, well like any service you always get some who are dissatisfied, but in general and on the whole it was well liked and was far more reliable than todays privatised rail network, and it was far less expensive to use compared to todays over priced rail services. As it was all state owned it was well organised and run for the people and not for profit as is the case with todays privately owned rail companies.

[@tomwilliams7391]

The news reports look so old!!! Watching in 2021, I was 7 in 1991!

[@angelacooper2661]

I am much older than you, being 21 in 1991 and going to work! Difficult for me to travel in bad conditions.

[@brenkenney6624]

8:48 actually yes it was forecasted a week earlier

[@resnonverba137]

Seems like yesterday..

[@matthewjeffery6481]

Wtf?? The M6 doesn’t go straight down

[@brianlion9494]

How do gritter lorry drivers get to work?

[@09weenic]

They each have a pack of huskies and a sledge 😃

[@CARLIN4737]

slowly

[@rshegg7605]

13:47 how fast is the car going, answers on a post card to fuxkinghell😮

[@sarahlouise7163]

moira stewart looks like an nfl footballer

[@fiveminuteman]

Fergus walsh now does all the medical covid reports on beeb. He must have been a young nipper back in 90

[@JakeGreen86]

When they cut away to the national Grid man it's so crappy looking couple guys on a table and a secretary looks like they are in an old science classroom. The board with national Grid on it and pictures of pylons.. classic😂😂

[@nigelbenn4642]

0:18 M6? That has junction one in Rugby which is dead centre of the Midlands!! WTF? This is so 90s Beeb, no one actually needs to accurate it's outside London so no one cares.

[@carlosvictor8679]

stay a t home and stock for the weekend?!...lol

[@VoiceOfThe]

And not a smart motorway in sight...

[@pauljk4280]

14:59 sexist weather men - then a woman comes on - lol