In article ,
Col writes:

"Steve J" wrote in message
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Strange as it may seem, only 5 winters have been colder than this one
by the looks of it in Coventry, even though the average looks like
being 1.1C above the 30-year climatological normal for 1971-2000.

Just goes to show how cold winters were in the 1970's!

I thought that up until the late 70's winters in that decade
were mild.

Yes, the period of mainly cold winters, going by the CET, was I think
roughly from 1976-7 to 1986-7. 1978 (Feb), 1978-9, 1981-2 (Dec and Jan),
1985 (Jan and Feb), 1986 (Feb) and 1987 (Jan) all had notable cold
spells in my part of the world (Surrey).
--
John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
a former director of the Bank of England