"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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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.



Peter Clarke
Ewell, Epsom 55m

There was a maximum temperature of -0.8°C with snow showers
and a fresh easterly here on 19 Nov 1985, the lowest for November in
my 22-year record. There were also two max's below zero in November
1993, on the 22nd and 28th, neither with snow.
I remember the freezing rain in January 1966, being at the Met
Office in Bracknell. I went a-over-t in the car park. Very
undignified for a civil servant, of course, even a 23-yr-old one. :-)

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey 556 ft.

Thanks for your comments, Tudor; my max on 22 Nov1993 was 0c and on 19 Nov
1985 it was 1.0c. Your extra height at Warlingham made all the difference.
Thanks also to Graham: I had forgotten how cold the winter was in
Scandinavia in 1965/66 which must have hung on into April because I
remember a cold east wind spell started on Easter Monday that year ( I think
about 11 April) and on the 14th there was a day-long snowfall here as
fronts advanced slowly from the south-west. I remember tuning in to the
"Home Service " radio station that morning and hearing Bert Foord say that
he had a snow warning " not for the Highlands of Scotland, but for southern
England".

Peter Clarke
Ewell, Epsom