On Aug 28, 10:26*am, John Hall wrote:
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*Dave Cornwell writes:





John Hall wrote:
In article ,
*Dave Cornwell writes:
Mine a-

1962/63 winter
1987 "Great Storm"
1976 Hot long summer.

Although these are obvious for my region I wondered what other
regional perceptions would be.
*Mine here in Surrey would be the same, with these additions:
*The extended summer of 1959, when to me as a child it seemed
as though
we had unbroken sun and warmth from early May to early October.
The downpour and flooding of September, 1968.
The remarkable spell of extreme cold and the heavy snowfall in January,
1987.
The blistering heat of 10th August, 2003, when I felt quite unwell
though my aged parents seemed to cope just fine.
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I think it was a Sunday

It was.

and I was playing cricket. I remember us lying under the wheeled
covers for shade while we watching our innings. ( I should hasten
to add that this was the only club I know that had covers at our
level - I wasn't playing first class cricket at 53!)
Dave



Incidentally, I'm surprised that I don't have any memory of the 1958
thunderstorm that Tudor mentioned. I would have been nearly ten at the
time, and was living only about 10 miles NW of Horsham.
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John Hall
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That ten miles may have been enough for you to miss most of the
fun but it would certainly have got dark, gloomy and greenish about
6.30 pm.
During the Hampstead storm (14/8/75) I was in someone's house in
Croydon and had no idea of the mayhem being created about 10 miles
north though I did notice it had got rather dark. There was very
little rain even immediately south of the Thames, let alone in
Croydon.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.