In article -jade,
Graham P Davis writes:
March 1963 wasn't particularly cold (CET 6.0C), 1962 was much
colder (2.8C), the 16th coldest in CET records.

Yep. Going by what we've had so far and what the models are suggesting
for the rest of the month, we might be close to beating the 1962 figure.
ISTR that if we do that, then it will be the coldest March since the
19th century. A quite remarkable contrast to last March.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) to a lady cellist