"Victor West" wrote in message ...
"Nigel Robson" wrote in message
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When I was at school (during the 70's) there was a book in the library
that
had information on weather conditions in the UK by season dating back to
about 1930. Is there any source on the internet that contains this sort of
information ?



Trevor Harley's excellent site at

http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~ta...ritweather.htm


From that site:

Quote:

The British Isles are one of the most interesting places in the world
in which to live for exciting weather. The weather is particularly
unpredictable here. The Gulf Stream keeps us much warmer than we
should be for our latitude (look at places at similar latitude on the
east coast of America, for example). We live in the battleground where
maritime and continental weather often fight. I'm at my happiest when
the continental weather wins: that's when we see the extremes of
summer heat and winter cold.

Unquote.

Is that the reason for the phenomena called ridges and cols and some
other stuff that seems to affect the Isles more than I have noticed
happening in other areas? Not that I am particularly well up on other
regions.

It's just that a peek at the ground rules might help before I delve
once more into the summer of 1976.