Absolutely nothing like 1963 here.

Then even in west Cornwall there were drifts feet deep. The temperature
remained below freezing on several days. I'm just old enough to remember it,
(including falling through the ice on a nearby pond!)

This year the lowest max was 5.1 on 21st February,. There have been a grand
total of 6 air frosts all winter. Most of the showers have been of
rain/sleet/hail. Just one decent snow shower gave a thin covering.

Still too cold for me, bring on the summer.

Graham
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
.uk...
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