On Jan 4, 7:17*pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Tuesday 04 Jan 2011 17:51, Keith (Southend)G scribbled:



On Jan 4, 5:45 pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Jan 4, 5:37 pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:

Mmm, do I sense a carrot Will, I'm beginning to lean towards my
original 'it was an early winter so Jan/Feb will be average' thoughts,
but a long time to go yet ;-)

Certainly sounds reasonable from the viewpoint of "things balance out
after a while" point of view. Although you'd have been waiting a long
time in 62/63 for that compensatory milder spell...!

Richard

Ah, but 1962/63 didn't start until Boxing Day.

I'm reminded of a discussion during a cold spell in November '63. Someone
remarked on how cold it was and wondered whether winter was starting earlier
than the last one. He got the answer that in November '62 there had already
been a week of persistent frost by the same time.

There were also freezing spells in December and I recall the week before
Christmas being one of those sub-zero spells. I think it was that week when
we had a fall of ice-needles in the form of large flakes. The snow began on
Boxing Day but it had been freezing hard before that. One of the reasons for
the persistence of the snow and cold weather was attributed by some to the
ground being frozen hard before the Boxing Day snowfall.

CET for November '62 was 1.1C below average (1951-80) and December was 1.9C
below.

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. [Chic
Murray(1919-1985)]

Thanks for that Graham, for some reason I always thought prior to
Boxing Day the weather had been average, I should have checked. I have
webified the November and December 1962 data of Bob Pritchard's, who
kept records in Southend at the time.

http://www.southendweather.net/11_1962_BP.htm
http://www.southendweather.net/12_1962_BP.htm

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"