On 09/04/2013 21:23, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Big Bollox *******i writes:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 12:35:28 PM UTC+1, Brian Lawrence
wrote:The one exception was the death of Anthony Eden on
January 14, 1997, which was followed by a mostly cool and dull
summer That was 1977 not '97.

Indeed, I stand corrected. Can anyone be bothered to look back
further? I wonder what effect Bonar Law's death had on the
weather? Bruce?

IIRC, Churchill died in late 1965, but the 1966 summer wasn't up to
much.

Actually he died in January.

I have a theory that our severest winters coincide with England cricket
teams touring Australia. The winters of 1946-7, 1962-3 and 1978-9 all
coincided with such tours, and December 2010 also did so. Of course you
can't extrapolate back too far. There was no tour of Australia in 1683-4
or 1739-40.



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