Peter Clarke wrote:

This was the coldest mid- November day that I can remember. The easterly
wind was blowing at almost gale force, whistling round the office building
where I worked, the temperature hovered around freezing point all day and
occasional snow flurries descended from an overcast sky. A few days later
,on 22 November, snow fell heavily in the afternoon for about 2 hours,
producing a good snowcover - a rare event for November in this part of
England. The winter which followed was fairly uneventful apart from a
freezing rain event on 20 January 1966.
All this would have produced plenty of comment on the NG if it had
occurred now.

Peter Clarke
Ewell, Epsom 55m


It may have been uneventful in southern England but northern England and
Scotland had a hard winter. Southern Norway suffered one of their worst
winters on record with thirty-feet-high ridges in the ice along the SE
coast. This ice was driven up the beaches by gale-force east winds,
resulting in the demolition of beach-front properties. There was an early
start to the winter with severe cold air first moving into the northern
Baltic from northern Russia in late October. A Scandinavian high dominated
the weather for most of the winter but its influence weakened in the south
so that the southern Baltic just remained ice-free.

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Graham Davis
Bracknell