On 08/02/2013 20:08, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Dave Cornwell writes:
As you have correctly stated elsewhere Darren - no signs of any
real cold and no true Easterly or N.Easterly driven from
Scandinavia for 17 years now. If you accept people won't have
accurate information from before they were 10 years old that
means nobody under 27 can remember real cold spells. As the
opinion formers and media pundits become younger so the
definition of a bitterly cold spell becomes diluted we will see an
increasing number of these non-cold "cold spells" !

Surely December 2010 counts as a real cold spell, even if it perhaps
wasn't quite as severe in Essex as it was over most of the country.
After all, months (and especially Decembers) with a CET below zero have
always been pretty rare. ISTR that we had NE winds for some of the time,
though at other times they were more northerly.


December 2010 was the coldest since I started recording in this part
of Essex in 1978

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George in Epping, west Essex, 350'asl
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