Winter of 2009–10 in Great Britain and Ireland

The winter of 2009–10 in the United Kingdom (also called The Big Freeze of 2010 by British and Irish media) was a meteorological event that started on 16 December 2009, as part of the severe winter weather in Europe. January 2010 was provisionally the coldest January since 1987 in the UK. A persistent pattern of cold northerly and easterly winds brought cold, moist air to the United Kingdom with many snow showers, fronts and polar lows bringing snowy weather with it.

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