In article ,
Bertie writes:
I'd be grateful if you knowledgeable weather-students could clarify
which year it was as there seems to be some confusion in the
media.

The winter of 1962-63 has of course passed into folklore, so
presumably it's 1963 and those outlets stating 1962 are using a lazy
shorthand for 62-63

For once those outlets are right. March 1962 was the coldest of the 20th
century. Although in 1982-3 it was very cold from just before Christmas
to the end of February, March 1963 wasn't too bad.
--
John Hall
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable
of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) to a lady cellist