"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article m,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message
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"Keith (Southend)G" writes:
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.

That's a bit of an over-simplification. There had been a couple of brief
cold spells earlier in the month, though admittedly nothing out of the
ordinary. (There had also been quite a sharp cold snap in mid-November.)
And though the snow at the end of the month didn't arrive till Boxing
Day (at least in the south), the bitter easterlies had set in on about
the 22nd or 23rd and that's when I would regard the winter as having
really started.

You forgot the smog John during periods of pre christmas high pressure
over
western europe.


I think the smog was in the first of those earlier cold spells that
December. The Clean Air acts were already starting to have an effect, or
it might have been as bad in London as the one ten years earlier.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)


Yes it was earlier December John but very dense and widespread

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3251001.stm