Have you seen the latest GFS Operational run for Paris? Temperature
never gets above zero between now and the end of the run (8th January).

Much of the time the temp is forecast as between -5C and -10C

http://www.netweather.tv/ensimages/e...6/t2mParis.png

And just take a look at the 5 day minimum Central Europe temperatures

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-b...WMO=&PERIOD=41

At this rate by the end of the winter we'll be able to walk from the UK
to Paris :-)

n 23/12/2010 08:12, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I was working in Paris from 1953 to 1958. One year, I think it might
have been 1956 or 1957, Spring was late, but arrived very suddenly. Ice
near the source of the Seine broke free and careered down the river and
arrived unmelted in Paris where it all banged up against the piers of
the bridges and accumulated there, unable to get further. It must have
made a trip on the bateaux mouches quite interesting.

Anyone know which year that would have been?

Hugh