Those were the days!
December 1981 and January 1982 contained some of the coldest, snowiest
and severest winter weather ever recorded in the UK
The coldest December since 1890 and the snowiest since 1878, December
1981 with a CET of 0.3 was one of the severest winter months of the
20th Century and yet it began mild and benign with double figure
maxima.
Read on
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