In article ,
Joe Whyte writes:
This makes an ineresting read about the "Great Frost".
Highlights;
21 month duration
Blizzards end-October
December floods
Ice flows in rivers and sea
Drought
Siberian volcanoes
...and Liverpool's football season as bad as now...non-existent!

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...p-was-nothing-
compared-to-the-great-irish-frost-of-1740-2478360.html


Conditions were also severe across the rest of the British Isles. The
calendar year 1740 is the coldest in the CET series.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)