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Monitoring snowfall trends

One of the country's leading snow experts

Richard Wild’s part time Doctorate involved painstaking searches of all known records and journals so that he could analyse changes in heavy snowfall trends since meteorological records began in 1861.

Richard, a meteorologist at Bournemouth-based Weathernet Ltd and Director of TORRO (Tornado and Storm Research Organisation), is regarded as one of the country’s leading snow experts.

Rising trend in snowfalls

Between 1890 and 1899 there were 27 heavy snowfalls. This has steadily risen until it had reached just under 60 between 1990 and 1999.

Snow in the Peak District "Heavy snowfall is 13cm or more snow falling in a 24-hour period. The UK has shown a rising trend in heavy snowfalls since the 1890s." Richard Wild