On Dec 9, 10:18*am, Nick wrote:
On Dec 8, 5:41*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:

Indeed Scott. I really think that some people may be under-estimating the
likely severity and impacts of what may come. Historic.

Will
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By historic are we taking on a likely par with 1981/2, 1979, 1963 or
1947 here incidentally? Even if on a par with 1979 it would be the
most severe winter I can remember clearly: I was around in 1979 but my
memories of it are vague and patchy.

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Joe B has interesting figures on his site:
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bast...er=accuweather

"The central England Temperature (CET) from the 1st-7th of December is
-1.9, making this the coldest opening week of December since 1879;
1879 is the coldest opening week on CET record, so this week has been
the second coldest opening week to December since CET records began in
1659.

The two-week period, last week of November and first week of December
is the coldest since CET records began in 1659."

I haven't cross referenced these figures.

Given the potential in the forecasts, "historic" is not out of the
question.

Cheers

Sean