Ian Currie from London was 12 years old when he was given a weather station for Christmas in 1962. It included a rain gauge, a funnel and a brass container. On Boxing Day, he said it snowed so much, his instruments were buried.
“I remember the milk bottles freezing with a column of ice,” said Mr Currie, who went on to become a weather forecaster, author and editor of Weather Eye magazine.
“Couldn’t be better timed to encourage a young weatherman in the making.”
“The classic white Christmas that I remember was 1970,” he added.
“It snowed heavily the day before and over Christmas Day and Boxing Day – metres of snow fell.”
He recalled “a terrific flash of lightning and almost instantaneous crash of thunder, which woke quite a few people up – and probably frightened Father Christmas”.
