Dave ,your memory is really playing you tricks ! .
March 1963 was actually quite Springlike ,my mean for the month in deepest
Stratford East was 7.1C.
19 of the days reached or exceeded 10C,and the only snowfall was a little
a.m on Friday the 22nd.
Maybe you are thinking of 1962 which was pretty bleak at times....

Regards

RonB
"Dave.C" wrote in message
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As someone who experienced that winter I have noticed a couple of things
that reminded me of that March. I wonder if this spell had started with a
massive fall of snow what would have happened. For example I'm now looking
out of my window at yet another reasonable snow shower. That's 13
consecutive days now. This was quite common then, and in March it was
sometimes drizzly and fine snow. The ground was so frozen and with a foot
of
frozen hard packed snow a slight thaw would have no effect. Some of the
grey
murky days with temps around 1C were similar, but then they would have no
impact and the snow cover over the deep frozen snow.
It wouldn't have to have been much colder - ask the people on the Kent
coast!

Dave