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Graham P Davis writes:
My memory of March '63 is of the 6th (I think - it may have been the
5th) when the temperature reached about 6 DegC. The other observer at
RAE Bedford Met Office pointed out that it was the first day since
Boxing Day that we'd had a temperature above zero DegC. That was
counting temperatures in whole degrees so our highest max would only
have been 0.4 DegC.

Even for 1962-3, that's fairly remarkable. At Cranleigh, we had quite a
few days - mostly in February - that reached about 2C, and on one day -
the abortive thaw (in late January IIRC) - I think we reached the dizzy
heights of 5C.
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