Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

On Jan 9, 7:44*pm, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.
--
John Hall
* * * * * * * * "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
* * * * * * * * *will hardly mind anything else."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

Well, I'm just basking in the sunshine that is the England cricket
team! *))

On 09/01/11 19:44, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Is there any correlation between cold winters and England performing
well in Australia? I heard someone on the radio a few days ago
suggesting that they usually did well when there was an El Nina event as
this tended to provide them with weather and therefore pitches which
were more suitable for their style.

--
Hungerdunger
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In article ,
hungerdunger writes:
On 09/01/11 19:44, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Is there any correlation between cold winters and England performing
well in Australia? I heard someone on the radio a few days ago
suggesting that they usually did well when there was an El Nina event
as this tended to provide them with weather and therefore pitches which
were more suitable for their style.


England were hammered in 1946-7, and in 1962-3 the series was drawn and
Australia retained the Ashes. England won the other three series, though
in 1978-9 Australia were very weak, having lost a lot of players to
Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

On Jan 9, 7:44*pm, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.
--
John Hall
* * * * * * * * "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
* * * * * * * * *will hardly mind anything else."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

and not to forget the glorious '86-'87 tour when England won the
series 2-1 - and a severely cold January...

In article
,
Scott W writes:
On Jan 9, 7:44*pm, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

and not to forget the glorious '86-'87 tour when England won the
series 2-1 - and a severely cold January...

True. BTW, I perhaps shouldn't have begun by saying "coldest winters in
the UK", since I used the CET, and it's possible that not all of those
five winters would have ranked amongst the coldest five in Scotland or
Northern Ireland.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

On 09/01/2011 19:44, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five
in the record from 1894-5 onwards.


Judging from other threads on seasonal forecasting, this method may be
as good as any other currently available...

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On Jan 9, 10:34*pm, Yokel wrote:
On 09/01/2011 19:44, John Hall wrote:

Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five
in the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Judging from *other threads on seasonal forecasting, this method may be
as good as any other currently available...

--
- Yokel -

Yokel posts via a spam-trap account which is not read.

*))

On Jan 9, 7:44*pm, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Apologies if this has been posted on here before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...Australia.html

For what it's worth, Steve used to (maybe still does) captain the
Reading Met dept. cricket team !

Richard

Apologies if this has been posted on here before.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cri...theashes/82464...

They could have played the series in Qatar and England would still
have triumphed over this sorry excuse of an Australian cricket team...