In article
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Seany McD writes:
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.

But it was only monthly CET records which began in 1659. Daily records,
which is what you need to determine the coldest first week, only go back
to 1772. It's still impressive, though.


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

As above.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)