I've been looking at some of my own records and what immediately shows up is
a massive difference between temperatures in the SouthEast and those in the
CET record. Where winter 95/96 may appear to have been a coolish winter in
CET terms, it was in fact actually quite mild down here. Average
temperatures were certainly warmer than winter 96/97. Another example is
the number of freezing days, in 95/96 there were 3 days, however 96/97 there
were 8 days.

My definition of a freezing day is a temperature less than or equal to 0.4C.

Shaun Pudwell.