As a somewhat "sad" climatologist, I have been researching the weather
in Coventry during the past 115 years for almost 30 years now.

We have now uploaded Excel files for each month back to 1978 on our
web site, though some of the early years contain sketchy detail in
places!

However, this morning I was looking at January 1979 - only 28 years
ago, but what a winter month that was!!

Here is the link for this file, just in case you want to have a look.

http://bws.users.netlink.co.uk/1979/January%201979.xls

I must say, it didn't seem that unusual at that time!

Fascinating hobby this!!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk